Flying Boats: Air Travel in the Golden Age (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780750970143)

Flying Boats: Air Travel in the Golden Age sets out to do justice to a time of glamorous, unhurried air travel, unrecognisable to most of today's air travellers, but sorely missed by some.During the 1930s, long-distance air travel was the preserve of the flying boat, which transported well-heeled passengers in ocean-liner style and comfort across the oceans.But then the Second World War came, and things changed. Suddenly, landplanes were more efficient, and in abundance: long concrete runways had been constructed during the war that could be used by a new generation of large transport aircraft; and endless developments in aircraft meant they could fly faster and for further distances. Commercial flying boat services resumed, but their days would be numbered.

Author: Charles Woodley
ISBN-10: 0750970146
ISBN-13: 9780750970143
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2018
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d