Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World
por James Hamilton-Paterson
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- Bom
- Brochura
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- Bom
- ISBN 10
- 0571247954
- ISBN 13
- 9780571247950
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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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- LBH/GOR 03
- Título
- Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World
- Autor
- James Hamilton-Paterson
- Formato/Encadernação
- Brochura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Bom
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- FIRST
- ISBN 10
- 0571247954
- ISBN 13
- 9780571247950
- Editorial
- Faber & Faber
- Local de publicação
- London
- Data de publicação
- 2011
- Páginas
- 376
- Dimensão
- 20CM
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- FICTION;
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