Airlines of the Jet Age: A History
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (538 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0978846087 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 461 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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More important, this is a history concerning people (those who work for the aircraft manufacturers or airlines and the millions who regularly fly); labor relations (including unions of pilots, flight attendants, and aircraft controllers, among others); culture (for example, the reversal of business versus leisure shares of the total market); and daily management decision-making. Airline and the People Who Made It) divides the industry’s rise into ten segments and 53 chapters, covering the evolution of planes through the industry’s advance across continents and into the contemporary era’s complications. Scattered throughout the book are the wonderful hand-drawn maps for which Ron Davies was famous and there are n
Davies recently retired as the Curator of Air Transport at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. He lives in England with his wife. R.E.G. He has authored or co-authored 21 books about aviation and airlines.
This reference book, covering airlines around the globe, is the ultimate resource for information on modern air transport. The volume also includes an informative introductory chapter guiding readers from the infancy of flight, through the air-transport craft in use during the two World Wars, and into the jet age.. It begins with the advent of jet airliners, covers the 'second' jet age of wide-bodied aircraft such as the Boeing 747 and DC-10, and closes with the introduction of the 'third' jet age, which begins with the double-decked giant Airbus A380. This book provides the first comprehensive history of the world's airline industries from the early 1960s to the present day
"Disappointing" according to Amazon Customer. poor quality pictures , hard to make out some of the aircraft. Graphs sometimes were confusing. I was disappointed, over all.. Thomas Duff said An encyclopedia of jetliner aviation in a single volume. If you're interested in aviation history, specifically from the advent of the jetliner going forward, this is a book that needs to be on your reading list Airlines of the Jet Age: A History by R. E. G. Davies. This has *far* more information than you'd ever want to know about the topic, be it specific plane types, manufactures, or all (and I mean *all*) the various airlines over the years in every country and co. "An important, insightful, and readable history of the world's airlines" according to Chris Sterling. R.E.G. Davies, retired Curator of Air Transport at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, has spent the better part of the past decade writing this book and preparing its many maps and charts. In a sense it is a sequel to his first volume, A HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S AIRLINES (Oxford, 196An important, insightful, and readable history of the world's airlines Chris Sterling R.E.G. Davies, retired Curator of Air Transport at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, has spent the better part of the past decade writing this book and preparing its many maps and charts. In a sense it is a sequel to his first volume, A HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S AIRLINES (Oxford, 1964) and builds on that volume to tell the often amazing story of airlines over the past half century.After a summati. ) and builds on that volume to tell the often amazing story of airlines over the past half century.After a summati