100 Years of British Flight (gnv64)

100 Years of British Flight
Editor Nigel Price
Key Publishing | 2008 | ISBN: 0946219125 | 100 pages | PDF | 91.2 mb

WELCOME to 100 Years of British Flight magazine, Key Publishing's 100-page tribute to the people who have shaped UK aviation and the machines they created. Inside this journal, you'll find the story of powered flight in Britain, from the days of Samuel Cody and A V Roe, right up to the state-of-the-art Euro fighter Typhoon and Joint Strike Fighter.
Celebrating pilots and designers, innovation and perseverance. This 100-site special situation examines how aviation was started in Britain, exhibiting how the UK's industry started, then expanded throughout the war many years, merged and at some point evolved into its recent kind. It also seems at the guys powering the historical past-generating equipment. Characteristics include Gallery of Fame, Battling Spirit, Bomber Biography, Constructing The Airliners, Paper Planes, Rotary Revolution and United We Stand.

CONTENTS
06 GALLERY OF FAME
Ken Ellis looks at the early aeronautical treasures held in London's Science Museum.
16 EWORLD-BEATING ROOTS
Ron Smith outlines the UK aircraft industry's genealogy in all its glory.
36 FIGHTING SPIRIT
British-built fighters developed over the last 100 years are reviewed by Nigel Price.
45 BEAUTIFUL, BUT DOOMED
The halcyon days of luxury British flying-boats and the type's fall from grace are described by Daniel Ford.
50 BOMBER BIOGRAPHY
Jarrod Cotter gives an overview of the history of British-built bomber aircraft
56 TURNING ONTHE POWER
David Willis highlights the development of the UK's aero engine industry.
60 BUILDING THE AIRLINERS
Britain has played a key role in shaping commercial aviation, as Bruce Hales-Dutton details.
68 A CENTURY OF BRITISH GENERAL AVIATION
Geoffrey de Havilland and others helped pioneer popular flyin as Rod Simpson explains.
74 ROTARY REVOLUTION
From a slow start, the UK's rotorcraft makers turned to international talent and became world-beaters, as Daniel Ford points o
78 PAPER PLANES
Britain's designers have produced a large number of projects over the last 100 years - we take a look at four'what ifs'.
84 FROM TROOP TRANSPORTERS TO AIR MOBILITY
David Willis chronicles the history of the RAF's UK-built military transports.
92 UNITED WE STAND
Joint projects started back with the Short brothers and is at the heart of aviation today. David Willis takes up the story.