Air Disaster: The Propeller Era

Air Disaster: The Propeller Era

From the earliest days of manned flight, one issue above all others has preoccupied pilots and passengers â€“ how do we avoid crashing?

It was a time of impossible glamour â€“ for the first time, ordinary people could fly across the oceans and continents to see the rest of the world.

But the story of the infancy of the big airliners is as much a story of tragedy and disaster as it is of triumph and romance.
Design flaws, pilot error, a lack of understanding of fatigueâ€¦ these and many other factors contributed to a litany of catastrophe.

Welsh rugby fans, flying back from a win against Irelandâ€¦ a fuel-starved aeroplane plunging into Manchesterâ€™s streetsâ€¦ a chartered aircraft carrying excited troops home for Christmasâ€¦ a young mother decapitated as she holds her toddler son on her lap

In AIR DISASTER: THE PROPELLER ERA, the award-winning Macarthur Job â€“ one of the worldâ€™s foremost aviation writers, and himself a pilot â€“ goes back to the early days of international air travel, and looks at the root causes of some of the worst disasters of that period.

Other Books in the series:
Air Disaster 2: The Jet Age
Air Disaster 3: Terror In The Sky
Country USA
Manufacturer Monday Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-07-30
Format Kindle eBook

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