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Author : Canada. Department of Transport. AIR SERVICES.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038415209
Author : Sam Howe Verhovek
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101444399
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 : R.E.G. Davies
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781944466077
Airlines of the Jet Age provides the first comprehensive history of the world's airlines from the early 1960s to the present day. It begins with an informative introductory chapter on the infancy of flight and the development of air-transport craft used during the First and Second World Wars, and then wings into the "first" Jet Age--the advent of jet airlines. It continues through the "second" Jet Age of wide-bodied aircraft, such as the Boeing 747 and DC-10, and closes with the introduction of the "third" Jet Age, which begins with the giant double-decked Airbus A380. This reference book is an unparalelled reference for aviation buffs, covering airlines around the globe and throughout the modern eras of human flight. The last book written by renowned airline historian R.E.G. Davies, Airlines of the Jet Age is the ultimate resource for information and insight on modern air transport.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015329357
Author : Peter Pigott
Publisher : Dundurn.com
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781459719545
Begun as a social experiment in 1937, Air Canada has evolved into one of the world’s greatest airlines. Air Canada: The History explores a modern miracle that has made commercial air travel in our country an everyday occurrence. The airline was born in 1937 as "Trans Canada Airlines," a ward of the Canadian National Railway. Renamed "Air Canada" in 1964 to reflect its status as a jet-age airline, it survived devastating air crashes, financial deficits, self-serving politicians, strikes, privatization, and the Airbus scandal. It was reviled in the nineties by the likes of Peter Newman, who joked, "If God had meant Man to fly, he wouldn’t have invented Air Canada." Today it is a much loved national icon. Fortunate at times to be run by great CEOs like Gordon McGregor and Claude Taylor, Air Canada has fought off a hostile takeover, merged with its arch-rival Canadian Airlines, and touched countless lives during its 75-year history. This is its story.
Author : Harold Skaarup
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462048175
This aviation handbook is intended to provide the reader with a quick reference to the major types of military jet aircraft and helicopters flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army, and the Canadian Forces in the post-war jet-age. The handbooks in this series include a general description and a photograph from the Canadian Forces Archives of at least one of the key variants or marks of each aircraft that has been in Canadian military service. Each aircraft is listed alphabetically by manufacturer, number and type. General details describing the aircrafts engines, service ceiling, speed, armament or weapons load are included, along with a brief description of the Canadian squadron which flew the aircraft. This is the sixth volume in this series. It describes the jet fighters, bombers, trainers and transports as well as the helicopters flown by Canadians in the post-WWII jet-age. A list of museums, private aircraft collections and other locations where a number of the survivors might be found is also included. The handbook is not a definitive list of all Canadian-manufactured or operated aircraft, but should serve as a quick reminder for anyone with an interest in Canadian military aviation.
Author : Julia Cooke
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780358251408
"A lively, unexpected portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am airways between 1966 and 1975"--
Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780300247466
A stunning look at the profound impact of the jet plane on the mid-century aesthetic, from Disneyland to Life magazine Vanessa R. Schwartz engagingly presents the jet plane’s power to define a new age at a critical moment in the mid-20th century, arguing that the craft’s speed and smooth ride allowed people to imagine themselves living in the future. Exploring realms as diverse as airport architecture, theme park design, film, and photography, Schwartz argues that the jet created an aesthetic that circulated on the ground below. Visual and media culture, including Eero Saarinen’s airports, David Bailey’s photographs of the jet set, and Ernst Haas’s experiments in color photojournalism glamorized the imagery of motion. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of The Walt Disney Studios, Schwartz also examines the period’s most successful example of fluid motion meeting media culture: Disneyland. The park’s dedication to “people-moving” defined Walt Disney’s vision, shaping the very identity of the place. The jet age aesthetic laid the groundwork for our contemporary media culture, in which motion is so fluid that we can surf the internet while going nowhere at all.
Author : Don Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Test pilots
ISBN : 1899163190
The story of one of the earliest aviators, Don Robertson, including: the first air mail flying in Northern Canada before World War II; flying off carriers protecting naval convoys, and at Vickers Supermarine test flying Spitfires and Seafires; and test piloting RAF aeroplanes at Boscombe Down.
Author : James Dow
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1550285548
Here is the fascinating story of the rise and fall of the Arrow, the legendary interceptor jet aircraft, developed by A.V. Roe Canada in the fifties. The Arrow was an unprecedented success story for Canada's fledgling aviation industry. It was conceived by its builders as the culmination of an impressive string of world firsts. Faster than any previous aircraft, it represented the leading edge of technology and an achievement of the highest calibre. Then came the dramatic decision whose rationale was not made public at the time and which remains hard to fathom even today. The Diefenbaker government cancelled the Arrow, and everything was destroyed, including the planes themselves. Nothing was to remain. Working from official documents, archives, interviews and a wide range of unofficial sources, James Dow presents the authoritative story of A.V. Roe Canada and its projects. He describes how the Arrow was developed and why it was killed. Dow takes us behind the scenes to the real dynamics and rivalries which were a part of the Arrow from the beginning and which explain its fate. This edition of the definitive book on the subject has been updated with a new introduction.
Author : Lawrence Miller
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459415270
When it first flew in 1957, the Avro Arrow was the world's best supersonic combat aircraft. It was the proudest achievement of the engineers and designers in Canada's world-leading aircraft industry. They had already succeeded in building the worlds first passenger jet. This book tells the story of building, testing, and flying the Arrow. It explores the reasons why the Diefenbaker Conservative government of the day cancelled the contract to build these planes — and then ordered the six already finished airplanes cut up and destroyed.
Author : Janet Lunn,Christopher Moore
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9781443119542
Learn the story of Canada in this beautiful new edition, fully updated! Who better than award-winning writer Janet Lunn and historian Christopher Moore to tell our country's story through rich narrative, recreations of daily life, folk tales and intriguing facts. Coupled with Alan Daniel's evocative original paintings, as well as dozens of historical photographs, maps, paintings, documents and cartoons, The Story of Canada is as splendid to look at as it is fascinating to read. Includes new material to bring us to the 150th anniversary of Confederation.
Author : Linda Brand,François Gauvreau,Canada Aviation Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : 0981119301
A story of Canada's aviation heritage from pioneer era to the jet age and the significant part played by Canadians in the development of aviation.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Europe
ISBN : UCAL:$B767027
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021760371
