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Title: Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World

ISBN: 9780571272181

Publication Year: 2010

Type: Textbook

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Book Title: Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World

Item Height: 233mm

Author: James Hamilton-Paterson

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Topic: Government, History, Aircraft

Item Width: 153mm

Number of Pages: 288 Pages

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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, and 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. Just 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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Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World

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by fsastsyd1
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Great read.
A truly great record of the time when we had a great aircraft industry, make up your own mind who ruined it.
by karenjbeesley
21 Jun, 2013
Incisive, thought provoking account of demise of British aircraft industry.
Empire of the Clouds is a splendid, meticulous and stylish story of wonderful machines and the men who made them. It is also a tale of fudging, incompetence, malice, complacency and ignorance. It is a story of defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. It is a very British tale indeed.

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