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Empire of the Clouds James Hamilton-Paterson

Empire of the Clouds By James Hamilton-Paterson

Empire of the Clouds by James Hamilton-Paterson


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Condition - Very Good
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Summary

In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric.

Empire of the Clouds Summary

Empire of the Clouds: The Golden Era of Britain's Aircraft by James Hamilton-Paterson

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?

About James Hamilton-Paterson

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.

Additional information

GOR009369121
9780571341481
0571341489
Empire of the Clouds: The Golden Era of Britain's Aircraft by James Hamilton-Paterson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Faber & Faber
20180405
416
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