Empire of the Clouds

The Golden Era of Britain's Aircraft

James Hamilton-Paterson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2018 | Main
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-34148-1 (ISBN)

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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.

How did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single aircraft manufacturer of any significance in the country? What became of the great industry of de Havilland or Handley Page? And 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 is the author of Gerontius, winner of a Whitbread Prize; Seven-Tenths: The Sea and its Thresholds; Playing With Water; and most recently, of the wild comic trilogy Cooking With Fernet Branca, Amazing Disgrace and Rancid Pansies. He is also an unabashed fan of great aircraft.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.03.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	347 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
ISBN-10	0-571-34148-9 / 0571341489
ISBN-13	978-0-571-34148-1 / 9780571341481
Zustand	Neuware