Jet Age

Author : Sam Howe Verhovek
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101444399

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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 : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781944466077

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Airlines of the Jet Age by R.E.G. Davies Pdf

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 : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780300247466

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Jet Age Aesthetic by Vanessa R. Schwartz Pdf

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 : Guy Ellis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445649016

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Britain's Jet Age by Guy Ellis Pdf

A wonderful illustrated beginner's guide to the first generation of British Jet Aircraft.

Author : Janet R. Bednarek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319311951

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Airports, Cities, and the Jet Age by Janet R. Bednarek Pdf

This book explores the relationship between cities and their commercial airports. These vital transportation facilities are locally owned and managed and civic leaders and boosters have made them central to often expansive economic development dreams, including the construction of architecturally significant buildings. However, other metropolitan residents have paid a high price for the expansion of air transportation, as battles over jet aircraft noise resulted not only in quieter jet engine technologies, but profound changes in the metropolitan landscape with the clearance of both urban and suburban neighborhoods. And in the wake of 9/11, the US commercial airport has emerged as the place where Americans most fully experience the security regime introduced after those terrorist attacks.

Author : Colin Higgs,Bruce Vigar
Publisher : Air World
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781526747761

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Test Pilots of the Jet Age by Colin Higgs,Bruce Vigar Pdf

Eleven daring test pilots recount their experiences at the forefront of aeronautical innovation in this oral history of the Jet Age. In the years after World War II, a select band of British test pilots risked everything in the quest to fly further, faster, and higher than ever before. Their vital work made our modern age of air transport possible. This book captures the stories of eleven such pilots, as told in their own words. Britain’s aircraft industry was booming in the late 1940s, and the demand for test pilots was seemingly limitless as new aircraft designs—some legendary and others nearly forgotten—were being built. Royal Air Force veterans who had distinguished themselves in the war suddenly had a vital new mission. First, they pursued the almost mythic goal of breaking the sound barrier. But once this was accomplished, they found themselves approaching speeds no one imagined possible. Their stories of that time are both colorful and insightful—and often tinged with humor.

Author : A. M. "Tex" Johnston
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781588344472

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Tex Johnston by A. M. "Tex" Johnston Pdf

One of America's most daring and accomplished test pilots, Tex Johnston flew the first US jet airplanes and, in a career spanning the 1930s through the 1970s, helped create the jet age at such pioneering aersospace companies as Bell Aircraft and Boeing.

Author : Earl McGill
Publisher : Helion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1909384941

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Jet Age Man by Earl McGill Pdf

Nominated as Best Military History Book 2013 in the prestigious journal Air Power History, published by the US Air Force Historical Foundation The events in Jet Age Man took place during the early Cold War, an era that will go down as a period when civilization teetered on the edge of the abyss. To some, nuclear deterrence appeared as utter madness, and was in fact commonly referred to as M.A.D. The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction provoked protests and marches, and the architect of M.A.D, General Curtis LeMay, became a symbol of madness himself. Raised during those turbulent times, most contemporary historians conclude that we were lucky to have survived. What they fail recognize is that for LeMay and the thousands of Cold War warriors who fought and won while serving in the Strategic Air Command, the proof of concept lies not in the "what if?" but in the reality, "what did." Historically, M.A.D. succeeded where appeasement, diplomacy and even hot wars failed. When The Wall came down, strength, not weakness, had prevailed. Most of this story takes place in the Cold War trenches of the Strategic Air Command. It is about those who served and the many who died, told by someone who, as a young man, literally held the fate of all mankind within reach of a switch. More particularly, this is a story of man's interaction with two bombers that changed the course of political history, and were perhaps the most influential aircraft in the annals of aircraft development. The author piloted and instructed in both the B-47 and the B-52, starting out as a copilot in the B-47, then aircraft commander and finally, instructor pilot in both aircraft. Jet Age Man chronicles his fifteen-year relationship with the B-47 and the aircraft the B-47 became, the B-52--a bomber still in service today.

Author : Julia Cooke
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780358251408

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Come Fly the World by Julia Cooke Pdf

"A lively, unexpected portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am airways between 1966 and 1975"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015329365

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Jet Age Airlanes by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1496 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Aeronautics and state
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110703456

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Federal Role in Aviation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legal and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1488 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Aeronautics and state
ISBN : MINN:31951P004924023

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Federal Role in Aviation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legal and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee Pdf

Author : Colin Higgs,Bruce Vigar
Publisher : Air World
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1526747758

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Test Pilots of the Jet Age by Colin Higgs,Bruce Vigar Pdf

Today, as we board our flights to Adelaide, Zurich, and all points in between, we give little thought to the jet power that will take us there. But, this is only possible because just over 70 years ago a select band of British test pilots was prepared to risk all in the quest to fly further, faster and higher than ever before. Their quest was fraught with danger; disaster and death were never far away. This book captures eleven of those stories as told by the pilots themselves - their words as to how they took British aviation to the forefront of a new era, the 'Jet Age'. Britain's aircraft industry was booming in the years immediately after the end of the Second World War and the demand for test pilots seemingly limitless as new aircraft types rolled off the drawing boards. Meteors, Vampires, Hunters, Comets, Victors, Vulcans and Harriers were some of the aircraft that became world-beaters. Today, these names and the role played by the test pilots in bringing these projects to fruition are all but forgotten. The stories were filmed over a number of years and it is the edited transcripts of those interviews that form a unique and rare perspective on such a pivotal era in aviation. Most were veterans of the Second World War with illustrious service records. Now they faced new battles as they flew new airframes and engines to the limit and sometimes beyond. First, they had to conquer the 'sound barrier' which to many, scientists and the public alike, had assumed almost mythic status. Having done that, they were soon flying at twice the speed of sound, such was the rate of progress. It took discipline, technical know-how, an above average level of flying skill and according to some, a lack of imagination to make a good test pilot. Their stories are often insightful, always modest and often tinged with humour.

Author : Eugene Fodor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Europe
ISBN : UOM:39015026876493

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Fodor's Jet Age Guide to Europe by Eugene Fodor Pdf

Author : E. T. Wooldridge
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034220387

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Into the Jet Age by E. T. Wooldridge Pdf

Korea became a proving ground for carrier-based jet combat operations, and in Vietnam, aircrews contended with politically motivated constraints on their actions and a new and deadly element of aerial warfare - the surface-to-air missile.