Croydon to Concorde - Hardcover

Gillman, Ronald Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071953741X ISBN 13: 9780719537417

Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1980

Ron Gillman turns to his thirty years of civil aviation since the Second World War, years of amazing technical progress in which aircraft have developed unbelievably fast. His personal flying experience covers the whole gamut from the biplane days to Concorde by way of the first prop-jets, the pure jets and the wide-bodied Jumbos. He has been in a unique position to record the story, having had working airline experience, fifteen years as a chief training captain and two years' secondment to the industry as test-pilot on engine development flying. Also, as a technical correspondent to the aviation press he has conducted handling assessments on new British and American aircraft coming from the great manuafacturers such as BAC, Boeing, Douglas, Lockheed and Vickers, with a host of other exotic types. He conveys just what it was like to fly them all and describes the stages leading up to today's mastery of the air: here are the weather hazards, the successes and mistakes, the bomb disasters and other tragedies, the lesser mishaps and light-hearted exploits of airline crews in far-off places. Includes 51 illustrations and a map showing BEA routes in the 1950s.

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