Evolution of the Airliner
Published on 21. August 2006
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-86126-870-9 (ISBN)
Description
Commercial air travel has come a long way since the first purpose-built airliners took to the sky soon after the First World War. Countless innovations have enabled aircraft to fly higher, faster and more efficiently, and flights have become more comfortable and cheaper.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ramsbury
United Kingdom
Illustrations
200 black & white photographs and and diagrams
Dimensions
Height: 296 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
965 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86126-870-9 (9781861268709)
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Person
Ray Whitford is a chartered engineer and has been Senior Lecturer in Aerodynamics and Aircraft Design with Cranfield University at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom for twenty years. He won the Rolls-Royce Award for Best Propulsion Submission in the Royal Aeronautical Society's 1997 'Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards' and a similar prize in 2005 for Best Technology Submission. He is the author of over sixty papers and articles on aircraft design.