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Quinn: Wings over the World - Tales from the Golden Age of Air Travel

SKU: 187816

Category: 1933 - 1945


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Nowadays air travel is as routine as catching a bus. But before the war, it was truly extraordinary. A giant Handley-Page biplane bound for Paris, bouncing along Croydon Aerodrome?s grass runway, meant seat belts were primarily needed before take-off. Africa by Empire flying boat was a five-day aerial voyage via lakes that had to be cleared of hippos before touchdown. On a wartime Boeing flying boat crossing the Atlantic, the navigator plotted his course by the stars. Now, historian Tom Quinn records the remarkable reminiscences of British pilots, navigators, stewardesses, and station commanders. Abundantly illustrated with period posters, photos, and memorabilia, this is stirring social history from the edge of living memory.

Hardcover, 19 x 26 cm, 186 pages, illustrated throughout with many b/w- & color illustrations

Author: Tom Quinn
Language: English

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