The Imperial Airways Fleet

Author: John Stroud
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780752429977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In the early 1920s, British civil aviation was under the control of a myriad of companies, both large and small, set up immediately after the war. It was realized that this plethora of companies was doing nothing for the advancement of civil aviation. As a result, Imperial Airways was formed to be Britain's national airline. From its small beginnings in an office at Victoria station, to the heady days of the Empire flying boats, Imperial Airways rapidly opened routes throughout the world. John Stroud's book details for the first time in one source all of the many aircraft that have flown for Imperial Airways. This includes details of what happened to them and their careers.

The Imperial Aircraft Flotilla

Author: Margaret Hall
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3838210212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description
A great wave of fundraising ‘patriotic’ associations followed in the wake of Great Britain’s declaration of war on Germany on 4 August 1914, at home but also right across the empire. The most successful public campaign of all was launched in London at the beginning of 1915. Known as the Imperial Aircraft Flotilla, the scheme aimed to attract contributions towards aircraft production costs from throughout the British Empire. Any country, locality, or community that provided sufficient funds for an entire ‘aeroplane’ could have it named after them. It was promised that when the machine crashed or was shot down, the name would be transferred to a new one of the same type. Margaret Hall examines the Imperial Aircraft Flotilla as a facet of imperial history. She analyzes the fundraising efforts in Canada and Newfoundland; the Zanzibar Protectorate; Fiji, Mauritius, and the Caribbean; Hong Kong; the Malay states and Straits Settlements; West Africa, especially Gold Coast; Southern Rhodesia; Basutoland; Swaziland and the Union of South Africa; the Indian empire and Burma; (British subjects in) independent Abyssinia and Siam; in the Shanghai International Settlement, and the British community of Argentina; Australia; and New Zealand. This remarkable and detailed book discusses the propaganda and counter-subversion usages of the Imperial Aircraft Flotilla—and what the support for the imperial war effort reveals about contemporary national and regional identities and aspirations.

Imperial Airways

Author: Robert Bluffield
Publisher: Classic Publications
ISBN: 9781906537074
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Imperial Airways is a name redolent of the excitement and glamour of the pioneering years of flight. Founded in the 1920s, Imperial Airways flew to destinations all over the world. This beautiful and evocative book on the 'golden age' of passenger flight is the result of years of research, and the text is complemented by a wealth of stunning photographs and ephemera. It will be the most definitive book published on the history of Imperial Airways and the formative years of British commercial aviation.

British Airways

Author: Paul Jarvis
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445679280
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Stunning posters that chart the development and romance of air travel. In association with British Airways.

Imperial Russian Air Service

Author: Alex Durkota
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891268076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The first comprehensive coverage of the major branches and ace pilots of the Russian Air Service in the Great War.

Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation

Author: Gordon Pirie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526118475
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
The new activity of trans-continental civil flying in the 1930s is a useful vantage point for viewing the extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Cultures and caricatures of British imperial aviation examines the experiences of those (mostly men) who flew solo or with a companion (racing or for leisure), who were airline passengers (doing colonial administration, business or research), or who flew as civilian air and ground crews. For airborne elites, flying was a modern and often enviable way of managing, using and experiencing empire. On the ground, aviation was a device for asserting old empire: adventure and modernity were accompanied by supremacism. At the time, however, British civil imperial flying was presented romantically in books, magazines and exhibitions. Eighty years on, imperial flying is still remembered, reproduced and re-enacted in caricature.

Britain's Imperial Air Routes 1918-1939

Author: Robin Higham
Publisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description

Miscellaneous Publications

Author: Great Britain. Ministry of Information
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description

The World's Carriers and Carrying Trades' Review

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 598

Book Description

An Air Fighter's Scrapbook

Author: Ira Jones
Publisher: Casemate / Greenhill
ISBN: 1612001513
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 381

Book Description
A classic memoir of the early days of aviation by a longtime Royal Air Force pilot, including his harrowing, exhilarating adventures in the Great War. Ira “Taffy” Jones was a well-known air fighter during the First World War, having scored about forty victories flying SE5 scouts in France with 74 Squadron. Familiar in flying circles, Jones recorded stories drawn from his own experiences during the war and wrote of the many personalities he had met or known by association, both during the war and in the postwar flying years. An Air Fighter’s Scrapbook recreates the atmosphere of the days of the biplane, of wartime flying, of early peacetime adventures in the air, the development of civil aviation, and breathtaking record-beating flights—all evoking the sheer delight in flying that characterized those early years.