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Boeing 747 - The Original Jumbo Jet by Lance Cole
Category: Technology and Transport | Series: FlightCraft Ser.
Boeing's 747 'heavy' has achieved a fifty-year reign of the airways, but now airlines are retiring their fleets as a different type of long-haul airliner emerges. Yet the ultimate development of the 747, the -800 model, will ply the airways for many years to come.Even as twin-engine airliners increasing ...Show more
British Military Test and Evaluation Aircraft - The Golden Years 1945-1975 by Neil Robinson (As told to); Malcolm V. Lowe; Mark Rolfe (Illustrator); Martin Derry (As told to)
Category: Military | Series: FlightCraft Ser.
It could be argued that the heyday of British military aircraft flight testing began in the 1940s, and continued throughout the three decades that followed, during the so-called Cold War period. As such, the authors have purposely chosen to focus on the first 30 years, The Golden Years, 1945 to 1975, fr ...Show more
Vickers VC10 by Lance Cole
Category: Military | Series: FlightCraft Ser.
Designed and manufactured by the men who would make Concorde, the Rolls-Royce powered Vickers VC10, and its larger variant, the Super VC10, represented the ultimate in 1960s subsonic airliners. The VC10 was Britain's answer to the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8.The VC10 was a second-generation jetliner ...Show more
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