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Seawings explores the history of majestic flying boats, capturing their rise and decline with vivid anecdotes and illustrations, highlighting their impact on transoceanic flight.


Characteristics

ISBN-13 9780709143130
ISBN-10 0709143133
Book cover finish(es) Hardcover ( rounded spine binding )
Special Features • Dust jacket
Condition Good
Author(s) Edward Jablonski
Publisher Robert Hale & Company
Number of pages 260
Published date 1974
Language(s) English
Size 19 x 27 x 3 cm
Categorie(s) • APPAREILS - CONSTRUCTEURS


Description

No airplane ever quite captured the romantic fancy of the American people the way the majestic "flying boats" did. At their peak, these seaplanes blazed the way for transoceanic and intercontinental flight. In this book, Edward Jablonski traces the exciting rise and abrupt decline of these uniquely beautiful aircraft. The era of the amphibians was neatly enclosed by the two world wars—the first suggested the possibilities, while the second produced a series of aircraft that made them obsolete. But while they lasted, the amphibians provided the means to open up the Caribbean and Latin America to American flights, and then to stretch across the Atlantic and Pacific.

Edward Jablonski takes his readers into the cockpit with Charles Lindbergh, on the exploratory flights across the Caribbean, with Winston Churchill, piloting his own plane across the Atlantic at the height of World War II, and with Howard Hughes, showing the world that his famous wooden "Spruce Goose"—bigger even than a 747—would really fly. He includes portions of the flight log of the first China Clipper, and tells how these celebrated seaplanes helped make Pan American Airways and its leader, Juan Trippe, giants of commercial aviation. Filled with fascinating anecdotes and extensively illustrated, Seawings will delight every reader who loves the air—or the sea, for it tells the story of the magnificent ships that conquered both.

 


À PROPOS DE CET AUTEUR
Edward Jablonski

Edward Jablonski ( March 1st, 1922 - February 10th, 2004 ) was a Polish - American author of several biographies on American cultural personalities ( such as George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Alan Jay Lerner and Irving Berlin ) as well as books on aviation history, such as Ladybirds : Women in Aviation ( 1968 ), Flying Fortress ( 1968 ) and Double Strike : the Epic Air Raids on Regensburg - Schweinfurt, August 17th, 1943 ( 1974 ).  


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