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Trident: A History

Door Frank McKim

Categorie
Vliegtuigen & Luchtvaart
Boeknummer
#364217-XL7
Titel
Trident: A History
Auteur
McKim, Frank
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Chalford : Tempus
Jaar van uitgave
2008
ISBN10
0752444026
ISBN13
9780752444024
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with numerous photographs (partly in colour), 8vo.
Samenvatting
This book presents a general history of the Trident aircraft charting its evolution, experience with airlines, and subsequent withdrawal. Trident was the world's first tri-jet and the first civilian aircraft certified to be able to land automatically in Cat B conditions. This illustrated history explains its beginnings, detail its layout and features, discuss new variants, the impact of BEA on Trident, and its role variously in connection with Kuwait Airways, Iraqi Airways, Pakistan, Air Ceylon, BKS Air Transport, Channel Airways, Cyprus Airways, China, and Zaire. The appendices include a production list and specifications. Notoriously, in 1972, 118 people were killed when a BEA Trident airliner ploughed into waste ground on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport. The book is written with the a... (Lees verder)ssistance of Neil Lomax of the Trident Preservation Society in Manchester and includes pictures of their recent Trident restoration project.
Pagina's
158
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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