Adventurous Empires : The Story of the Short Empire Flying Boats

Adventurous Empires : The Story of the Short Empire Flying Boats

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Author: </b> Sims, Phillip E.

ix + 355pp., b/w pls., text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., index, This is a story from a bygone age, recalling the most successful flying-boat airliner ever built. Designed to a specification for Imperial Airways, then Britain’s national airline, it carried passengers and, more importantly, mail throughout the British Empire. In an age devoid of instant electronic communications but offering luxurious travel for the privileged few, every journey was an adventure, shared by passengers and crew. – Short Brothers built 42 Empire Flying-Boats at their factory in Rochester during the late 1930s. When compared with other aircraft of the era, they were extremely large, luxurious and, even by today’s Standards

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Author: Sims, Phillip E.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Place: Barnsley
Cover: dust jacket
Condition: New Book
Category: Civil Aviation
Year: 2013
Edition: 1st ed. thus
Size: octavo
Description: ix + 355pp., b/w pls., text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., index, This is a story from a bygone age, recalling the most successful flying-boat airliner ever built. Designed to a specification for Imperial Airways, then Britain’s national airline, it carried passengers and, more importantly, mail throughout the British Empire. In an age devoid of instant electronic communications but offering luxurious travel for the privileged few, every journey was an adventure, shared by passengers and crew. – Short Brothers built 42 Empire Flying-Boats at their factory in Rochester during the late 1930s. When compared with other aircraft of the era, they were extremely large, luxurious and, even by today’s Standards

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