Flight Craft 24: Boeing 747: The Original Jumbo Jet by Lance Cole (English) Pape

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Boeing's 747 'heavy' has achieved a fifty-year reign of the airways, but now airlines are retiring their fleets as a different type of long-haul airliner emerges. Yet the ultimate development of the 747, the -800 model, will ply the airways for many years to come. Even as twin-engine airliners increasingly dominate long-haul operations and the story of the four-engine Airbus A380 slows, the world is still a different place thanks to the great gamble that Boeing took with its 747. From early, difficult days designing and proving the world's biggest-ever airliner, the 747 has grown into a 400-ton leviathan capable of encircling the world. Boeing took a massive billion-dollar gamble and won. Taking its maiden flight in February 1969, designing and building the 747 was a huge challenge and involved new fields of aerospace technology. Multiple fail-safe systems were designed, and problems developing the engines put the whole programme at risk. Yet the issues were solved and the 747 flew like a dream said pilots - belying its size and sheer scale. With its distinctive hump and an extended upper-deck allied to airframe, avionics and engine developments, 747 became both a blue-riband airliner and, a mass-economy class travel device. Fitted with ultra-efficient Rolls-Royce engines, 747s became long-haul champions all over the world, notably on Pacific routes. across the Atlantic in January 1970, 747 became the must-have, four-engine, long haul airframe. Japan Airlines, for example, operated over sixty 747s in the world's biggest 747 fleet. By the renowned aviation author Lance Cole, this book provides a detailed yet engaging commentary on the design engineering and operating life and times of civil aviation's greatest sub-sonic achievement. AUTHOR: Lance Cole has been an automotive and aviation writer for over 25 years and is internationally published and syndicated. A former Sir William Lyons Scholar, and national press columnist, Lance is the author of over a dozen books and is also a trained designer, photographer and illustrator. 200 colour and b/w illustrations

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Author Biography

LANCE COLE is an award-winning automotive and aviation writer. As well as been the author of numerous books, he has written for _Flight International_ and a host of newspapers and magazines worldwide. Lance worked with the test pilot Brian Trubshaw whilst researching the VC10 story. Lance has studied the aircraft since he flew on them as a child in Africa.

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"The photographs, per usual, are a superb collection of a considerable number of liveries."-- "Historical Miniatures Gaming Society""...will be of great interest to modelers planning on building a 747 and to aircraft enthusiasts alike."-- "AMPS Indianapolis"

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"...will be of great interest to modelers planning on building a 747 and to aircraft enthusiasts alike."

Details ISBN1526760029 Author Lance Cole Short Title Boeing 747 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1526760029 ISBN-13 9781526760029 Format Paperback Imprint Air World Subtitle The Original Jumbo Jet Series Number 24 Publisher Pen & Sword Books Ltd Place of Publication Barnsley Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 96 Series Flight Craft Publication Date 2021-10-22 AU Release Date 2021-10-22 NZ Release Date 2021-10-22 UK Release Date 2021-10-22 Illustrations 200 colour & black and white illustrations DEWEY 629.133349 Audience General We've got this

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