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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? 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 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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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Economics, finance, business & management Industry & industrial studies Manufacturing industries

• Pełny tytuł: Empire of the Clouds
• Autor: James Hamilton-Paterson
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 304
• EAN: 9780571247943
• ISBN: 0571247946
• ID: 04103761
• Wydawca: Faber & Faber
• Waga: 562 g
• Wymiary: 241 × 165 × 34 mm
• Data wydania: 07. October 2010

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