Vintage Airliners: A Collection of Vintage Photographs

Vintage Airliners: A Collection of Vintage Photographs

Commercial aviation history unfolds while you turn the pages of Vintage Airliners . During the journey the photographs will help you step back to the days when airlines could not fly at night, when Ford Motors built the most common airliner, and when passengers flew in Fokker, Curtiss Condor, Boeing 247 and the Douglas DC-1 and DC-3. You will see airliners and many interiors before and after WWII including the Connie or Constellation, the Stratocruiser and the family of DC-4 and DC-6 airliners and some airliners that did not enter into production. Turing its pages you will read short stories about individual airliners, examples include; an Hawaiian Airlines DC-3 airliner attacked at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941; a Swedish Air Lines DC-4 named Norian, which was the first foreign aircraft to fly over New York City after WWII or Princess Elizabeth christening the first British pressurized airliner. **All of the major airlines are included; American, Delta, Eastern, National Airlines, Northwest, Pan American, TWA, and United Airlines. **Many regional carriers are pictured highlighting; Long Island Airlines, Los Angeles Airways, Trans-Texas, West Coast Airlines, Mohawk, Hawaiian Airlines and Wein Alaska Airlines. **International carriers are represented too; KLM, Air France, Alitalia, Australia National Airways, British Overseas Airways, Qantas, Sebena and Colonial Airlines to name a few. Readers will see the first radar gear installed at major airports, see gas fired fog reduction systems at Los Angeles Airport, landing lights being introduced to Newark and New York International (JFK) Airport Vintage Airliners tells the story of how the airline industry began, its initial challenges to the railroad industry and how in 1951 airliners carried more passengers than the railroad for the first time. And readers will learn how the introduction the Comet and Boeing 707 prototype ushered in the jet age that forever changed commercial air travel.

Country	USA
Author	John Cilio
Binding	Perfect Paperback
EAN	9780982772843
Edition	1st
ISBN	098277284X
Label	Vintage Flyer Media LLC
Manufacturer	Vintage Flyer Media LLC
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	114
PublicationDate	2010-10-11
Publisher	Vintage Flyer Media LLC
Studio	Vintage Flyer Media LLC
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00