Adventurous Empires : The Story of the Short Empire Flying Boats
by Sims, Phillip E
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- Condition
- New Book
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About This Item
Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2013. 1st ed. thus. New Book. octavo. dust jacket ix + 355pp., b/w pls., text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., index, ÔThis 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 StandardsÕ
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66784
- Title
- Adventurous Empires : The Story of the Short Empire Flying Boats
- Author
- Sims, Phillip E
- Book Condition
- New New Book
- Edition
- 1st ed. thus
- Publisher
- Pen and Sword
- Place of Publication
- Barnsley
- Date Published
- 2013
- Size
- octavo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil Aviation;
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