Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World
by James Hamilton-Paterson
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In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter. The Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful fighter-jet ever built and the Lightning, which could zoom ten miles above the clouds in a couple of minutes and whose pilots rated flying it as better than sex. Just what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, and pilots were the rock stars of the age? James Hamilton-Paterson captures that season of glory in a compelling book that fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully realistic history of British decline - its loss of self confidence and power. It is the story of great and charismatic machines and the men who flew them: heroes such as Bill Waterton, Neville Duke, John Derry and Bill Beaumont who took inconceivable risks, so that we could fly without a second thought.
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- Title
- Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World
- Author
- James Hamilton-Paterson
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- 1
- Edition
- FIRST
- ISBN 10
- 0571247954
- ISBN 13
- 9780571247950
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2011
- Pages
- 376
- Size
- 20CM
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- Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World
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