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Aircraft and Aerospace Manufacturing in Northern Ireland : An Illustrated History - 1909 to the Present Day

Northern Ireland has an enviable, extensive and often unappreciated role in aviation history.
With a focus on aircraft manufacturing from the first pioneering steps by Lilian Bland, Joseph Cordner and a young Harry Ferguson, through a century of developments in production and research, this illustrated volume highlights that history and the people who played a part.

Using over 300 black and white and colour images, with extended captions, the authors take a chronological look at how, from innovative beginnings, a successful aircraft and aerospace industry has thrived locally through periods of war and peace.
Aircraft from both military and civil backgrounds are featured including the early experiments, licensed military production, flying boats, conversions, fascinating research designs, jet and missile developments, and successful transport and passenger aeroplanes. Details of both locations and people help to bring the story to life.

Written by two experts on the topic and drawing on the archives and collections of Bombardier Belfast and Ulster Aviation Society, this volume contains much previously unpublished material.

Specificaties

Auteur:	Guy Warner, Ernie Cromie
Uitvoering:	128 blz, 20 x 24 x 0.7 cm, paperback
Illustraties:	300+ z/w- en kleurenfoto's
Taal:	Engels
Uitgever:	Colourpoint Books (GB, 2014)
ISBN:	9781780730608

Qantas and the Empire Flying Boat

Between 1938 and 1948, Qantas Short Empire flying boats navigated a dramatic and dangerous period for commercial aviation. They flew the Singapore-Sydney section of the prewar Imperial Airways UK-Australia air route, introducing a new level of luxury travel to the route.
However, the outbreak of war cut short this brief glamorous time and brought the Qantas boats increasingly onto the front line.

Containing over 160 stunning illustrations, many previously unpublished, this book details the history of the Empire flying boats as they went from luxurious carriers to military service in roles that included the resupply and evacuation of Allied military forces.

Specificaties

Auteur:	David Crotty
Uitvoering:	127 blz, 16.5 x 24.5 x 1 cm, paperback
Illustraties:	160+ z/w- en kleurenfoto's
Taal:	Engels
Uitgever:	Key Publishing Ltd (GB, 2022)
ISBN:	9781913870379

Short Stirling : RAF Heavy Bomber in World War II (Legends of Warfare)

Introduced in 1941, the Short Stirling was the Royal Air Force's first four-engine heavy bomber of the Second World War. However, early on, the Stirling's performance was compromised by several issues: a reduced wingspan, which resulted in serious limitations on maximum altitude capability; the two-stage landing gear proved to be dangerously frail; and the bomb-bay design proved incapable of carrying large-scale blockbuster bombs. Its altitude ceiling limitations left the aircraft particularly vulnerable to isolation and dispatch by enemy night fighters within the bomber stream, and it was these factors that ultimately led to its withdrawal from Britain's strategic bombing campaign over occupied Europe.

By November 1943, it was replaced by the more effective Handley Page Halifax and Avro Lancaster. However, it did see important second-line duty in the glider-towing, paratroop drop, minelaying, and supply roles. The Stirling also saw post-WWII duties as a passenger transport up to the late 1940s.

This book is a concise, visual history of this lesser-known RAF WWII bomber.

Specificaties

Auteur:	Ron Mackay
Uitvoering:	112 blz, 23 x 23.5 x 1.8 cm, harde kaft
Illustraties:	185 z/w- en kleurenfoto's
Taal:	Engels
Uitgever:	Schiffer Publishing Ltd (USA, 2022)
Serie:	Legends of Warfare
ISBN:	9780764364631

Short Stirling Units of World War 2 (Osprey)

Of the RAF's trio of four-engined heavy bombers in World War 2, the mighty Short Stirling was the first to enter service in August 1940. From its first raid in February 1941, the Stirling was at the forefront of the British night bombing offensive against Germany before unacceptably high losses forced its relegation to second-line duties later in the war.
In its modified form as the Mark IV the Stirling fulfilled vital roles with the RAF as a paratroop transport and glider tug on D-Day, at Arnhem and on the Rhine crossing as well as flying countless Special Duties operations over Occupied Europe and Norway.
Its last gasp was in 1948-49 when a handful of Mk Vs were acquired by the Royal Egyptian Air Force to bomb Israel in the First Arab-Israeli War.

Containing numerous first-hand combat accounts from the crews that flew the bomber and detailed profile artwork, "Short Stirling Units of World War 2" uncovers the history of one of the RAF's greatest World War 2 bombers.

Specificaties

Auteur:	Jonathan Falconer
Uitvoering:	96 blz, 25 x 18.5 x 0.7 cm, paperback
Illustraties:	76 z/w- en kleurenfoto's
Taal:	Engels
Uitgever:	Osprey Publishing (GB, 2018)
Serie:	Combat Aircraft (124)
ISBN:	9781472820426

Sunderland

Short Brothers, één van de eerste fabrikanten van commerciële vliegtuigen, speelde een belangrijke rol in de geschiedenis van de luchtvaart. Het meest legendarische ontwerp, de Short Sunderland-vliegboot, werd in 1938 bij de RAF in gebruik genomen en werd een cruciaal bezit tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Terwijl Coastal Command bijna 50 vliegtuigtypes gebruikte, bleef alleen de Sunderland van de eerste tot de laatste dag van de oorlog aan het front. Het geavanceerde ontwerp zorgde ervoor dat de RAF tot 1958 in dienst bleef en de RNZAF nog bijna tien jaar. De Sunderland was de meest capabele vliegboot van de RAF en uiteindelijk ook de laatste.

Dit boek, met meer dan 260 afbeeldingen, onderzoekt het ontwerp, de ontwikkeling en de operationele geschiedenis van de Sunderland. Het behandelt de rol ervan in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, de Koreaanse Oorlog en de blijvende impact ervan op de luchtvaart. De Sunderland blijft een geliefd vliegtuig onder luchtvaartliefhebbers en degenen die dienden aan boord van de "Queen of Boats" van de RAF.

Let op: dit is een nieuwe editie van "Aeroplane Icons: Sunderland".

Specificaties

Uitvoering:	96 blz, 24.5 x 17 cm, paperback
Illustraties:	rijk geïllustreerd
Taal:	Engels
Uitgever:	Key Publishing Ltd (GB, 2023)
Serie:	Historic Military Aircraft (23)
ISBN:	9781802824582