Boeing 707 Group

Author : Graham M. Simons
Publisher : Pen & Sword Aviation
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1473861349

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Boeing 707 Group by Graham M. Simons Pdf

The Boeing 707 family - that includes the forerunner Model 367-80, the KC-135 series of military transports and the slightly smaller Model 720 - was the pioneer of the sweptback wing, incorporating podded engines borrowed from the B-47 military bomber. It was the aircraft that many regard as the design that really ushered in the Jet-Age. This new book from the established aviation historian Graham Simons examines the entire course of the Boeing 707's history, charting an impressive design evolution and illustrating the many ways in which the 707's legacy continues to be felt to this day. In laying the foundation for Boeing's preeminence on the word's jetliner market during the 1980s and 90s, the 707 paved the way for future innovations in both civilian and military fields and Graham Simons has put together an image-packed history that records the historic and landmark milestones of this iconic aircraft type.

Author : Graham M. Simons
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781473861367

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Boeing 707 Group by Graham M. Simons Pdf

A definitive look at the plane that revolutionized air travel and its place in aviation history from the author of Comet! The World’s First Jet Airliner. The Boeing 707 family—that includes the forerunner Model 367-80, the KC-135 series of military transports and the slightly smaller Model 720—was the pioneer of the sweptback wing, incorporating podded engines borrowed from the B-47 military bomber. It was the aircraft that many regard as the design that really ushered in the Jet-Age. This book from the established aviation historian Graham Simons examines the entire course of the Boeing 707’s history, charting an impressive design evolution and illustrating the many ways in which the 707’s legacy continues to be felt to this day. In laying the foundation for Boeing’s preeminence on the world’s jetliner market during the 1980s and 90s, the 707 paved the way for future innovations in both civilian and military fields and Graham Simons has put together an image-packed history that records the historic and landmark milestones of this iconic aircraft type. “The book is well worth the price and will provide many hours of intriguing reading and research support. It is a good addition to one’s aviation bookshelf.”—Air Power History “An impressive volume that is well-written, and easy to read. Its research is of a high standard. It will, of course, appeal to Boeing 707/C-135 ‘enthusiasts’ and as such could well become a ‘Standard Reference Work’ on its subject.”—NZ Crown Mines

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013152918

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Boeing Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sam Howe Verhovek
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101444399

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Jet Age by Sam Howe Verhovek Pdf

The captivating story of the titans, engineers, and pilots who raced to design a safe and lucrative passenger jet. In Jet Age, journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of the first generation of jet airliners and the people who designed, built, and flew them. The path to jet travel was triumphal and amazingly rapid-less than fifty years after the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, Great Britain led the world with the first commercial jet plane service. Yet the pioneering British Comet was cursed with a tragic, mysterious flaw, and an upstart Seattle company put a new competitor in the sky: the Boeing 707 Jet Stratoliner. Jet Age vividly recreates the race between two nations, two global airlines, and two rival teams of brilliant engineers for bragging rights to the first jet service across the Atlantic Ocean in 1958. At the center of this story are great minds and courageous souls, including Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, who spearheaded the development of the Comet, even as two of his sons lost their lives flying earlier models of his aircraft; Sir Arnold Hall, the brilliant British aerodynamicist tasked with uncovering the Comet's fatal flaw; Bill Allen, Boeing's deceptively mild-mannered president; and Alvin "Tex" Johnston, Boeing's swashbuckling but supremely skilled test pilot. The extraordinary airplanes themselves emerge as characters in the drama. As the Comet and the Boeing 707 go head-to-head, flying twice as fast and high as the propeller planes that preceded them, the book captures the electrifying spirit of an era: the Jet Age. In the spirit of Stephen Ambrose's Nothing Like It in the World, Verhovek's Jet Age offers a gorgeous rendering of an exciting age and fascinating technology that permanently changed our conception of distance and time, of a triumph of engineering and design, and of a company that took a huge gamble and won.

Author : Ron Mak
Publisher : Key Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781802821154

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Boeing 707 by Ron Mak Pdf

The first widely used commercial jet, the Boeing 707 brought America into the ‘Jet Age’ of the late 1950s and created the template for worldwide air travel today. The 707 first flew on December 20, 1957, and less than a year later it made its first commercial flight from New York to Paris. Initially flown mainly by Pan American, the Boeing 707 was soon operated by both domestic and international airlines around the world, and the popularity of the aircraft led to increased development of air-traffic-control systems, airport terminals, runways and airport infrastructure. The 707 remained in production until late 1978, by which time it was too small to handle the increased passenger densities on many routes, and it was retired to make way for more-modern jetliner types. By the end of production, a total of 1,010 aircraft had been built for civil use, though many of these subsequently found their way into military service, and purpose-built military variants remained in production until 1991. This book provides a fascinating portfolio of images depicting a wide range of Boeing 707 variants in service around the world, in passenger, cargo and military use. Like the aircraft itself, the photographs, taken at airports in North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, span the world, showcasing many of the aircraft’s diverse and colorful liveries.

Author : Dominique Breffort
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 2352500753

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Boeing 707, KC-135 by Dominique Breffort Pdf

Although the Boeing 707 is known worldwide as the machine which took civil aviation from the piston engine era into that of the jet engine, what is very often not known is that its existence was only made possible by the success of its immediate predecessor, the KC – 135, a flying fuel tank used for refueling the strategic B – 52 bomber, also made by Boeing. Although these two models came from the same prototype, the “Dash 80”, which first flew in July 1954, they were in fact two radically different machines sharing only a limited number of common features. More than 800 KC – 135s were produced spawning an impressive number of variants and specialized versions, from training astronauts to collecting samples, from transporting headquarters staff to waging electronic warfare. More than 1000 Boeing 707s were built up to the end of the 20th century and also had a long career with various versions and re-engined variants, the last machines coming off the production lines, so the story goes, destined for the military market, in the form of the E – 3 Sentry which will remain in service into the middle of the present century.

Author : Barry J. Schiff
Publisher : Aero Pub Incorporated
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Boeing 707 (Jet transports)
ISBN : 0816856532

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The Boeing 707 by Barry J. Schiff Pdf

Text, photographs, and line drawings trace the developmental history of the commercial passenger jet and the "Great Race" between Boeing, Convair, and Douglas Aircraft Companies.

Author : Kivanc N. Hurturk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Boeing 707 (Jet transports)
ISBN : 0966636805

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History of the Boeing 707 by Kivanc N. Hurturk Pdf

Author : Graham M. Simons
Publisher : Air World
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781526787248

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Boeing 737 by Graham M. Simons Pdf

An in-depth history of the controversial airplane, from its design, development and service to politics, power struggles, and more. The Boeing 737 is an American short- to medium-range twinjet narrow-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, a division of the Boeing Company. Originally designed as a shorter, lower-cost twin-engine airliner derived from the 707 and 727, the 737 has grown into a family of passenger models with capacities from 85 to 215 passengers, the most recent version of which, the 737 MAX, has become embroiled in a worldwide controversy. Initially envisioned in 1964, the first 737-100 made its first flight in April 1967 and entered airline service in February 1968 with Lufthansa. The 737 series went on to become one of the highest-selling commercial jetliners in history and has been in production in its core form since 1967; the 10,000th example was rolled out on 13 March 2018. There is, however, a very different side to the convoluted story of the 737’s development, one that demonstrates a transition of power from a primarily engineering structure to one of accountancy, number-driven powerbase that saw corners cut, and the previous extremely high safety methodology compromised. The result was the 737 MAX. Having entered service in 2017, this model was grounded worldwide in March 2019 following two devastating crashes.? In this revealing insight into the Boeing 737, the renowned aviation historian Graham M. Simons examines its design, development and service over the decades since 1967. He also explores the darker side of the 737’s history, laying bare the politics, power-struggles, changes of management ideology and battles with Airbus that culminated in the 737 MAX debacle that has threatened Boeing’s very survival.

Author : Lawrence Freedman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Falkland Islands War, 1982
ISBN : 9780714652078

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The Official History of the Falklands Campaign: War and diplomacy by Lawrence Freedman Pdf

Follows the task force to the South Atlantic, through the battles of early May that saw the loss of the Belgrano and the Sheffield, and on to the landings at San Carlos and the eventual surrender of the Argentine garrison.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556038805644

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Energy Use in Freight Transportation by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Coal
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045271868

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Coal Utilization and Distribution Act of 1981 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1510 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Government property
ISBN : UCAL:B5127462

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Federal Property Management and Disposal by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Pdf

Author : Richard R. Mudge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Energy consumption
ISBN : UCR:31210024763599

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Energy Use in Freight Transportation by Richard R. Mudge Pdf

Author : John Gunn
Publisher : john gunn
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0702221287

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High Corridors by John Gunn Pdf