Flying Boats of the Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Ships of the sky [Audiobook] download free by Richard Knott
- Listen audiobook: Flying Boats of the Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Ships of the sky
- Author: Richard Knott
- Release date: 2011/7/16
- Publisher: THE CROWOOD PRESS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780709087595
- Rating: 8.83 of 10
- Votes: 506
- Review by: Daniella Hickman
- Review rating: 9.28 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/15
- Duration: 3H20M35S in 256 kbps (54.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AC3, MP3, MPEG4, WAV, FLAC, WMA (compression ZIP, BZ, 7-ZIP, RAR, TAR)
- Total pages original book: 272
- Includes a PDF summary of 23 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 15M59S (4.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: This is a fascinating account of the age of Empire flying boats, whose story began in July 1936 with a reassuringly trouble-free test flight on Kent's River Medway. Within ten years, however, this last word in luxury was to become redundant, spurned by the post-war age. The story is a dramatic and human one. It tells of slow, meandering flights across the Empire, swooping down on sun-warmed stretches of water for luncheon and tea. But it also describes misadventure and disaster, with flying boats crashing with unnerving regularity. The characters involved in the Empire's story demonstrate its breadth, they include: Winston Churchill; Terence Rattigan (the playwright); Sir John Reith (who chaired both the BBC and Imperial Airways); Don Bennett (the wartime Pathfinder); and the doomed Duke of Kent. The Empire's magnificent military sibling, the Sunderland, is also featured and the book illuminates some less well known areas of the war, for example, the Norwegian campaign of 1940 and Australia's 'Pearl Harbour'.Extensively researched - drawing on personal letters and diaries, government papers, contemporary newspapers, and archive material from Imperial Airways and its successors - this book reveals all about the Empire flying boat and the people who designed, flew and travelled in them.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Military History, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, World War 2 Books, Aircraft
- Download servers: Torrent, 4Shared, MEGA, Microsoft OneDrive, Mediafire, Firedrop, IDrive. Compressed in ZIP, BZ, 7-ZIP, RAR, TAR
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 38.07 USD
- Dimensions: 156x234x22.86mm
- Weight: 780.18g
- Printed by: ROBERT HALE LTD
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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