Produttori di aeromobili - Gran Bretagna: libri illustrati - storia

The Jet Provost

Inizialmente progettato e costruito da Hunting Percival, il Jet Provost era una versione a reazione dell'addestratore a pistoni Provost, entrato in servizio solo cinque anni prima del suo fratello minore più potente.
Il Jet Provost divenne il primo addestratore a reazione della RAF quando entrò in servizio nel 1955 e mantenne saldamente questo ruolo cruciale fino al 1993, quando fu sostituito dal Tucano, dotato di motori turboelica.
Durante la sua lunga carriera in servizio con la RAF, il Jet Provost ha attraversato sette varianti, sebbene solo a partire dal T.3 la numerazione abbia iniziato ad aumentare.

Nel 1960, la Hunting Percival, che tre anni prima aveva cambiato nome in Hunting, fu acquisita dalla BAC. Fu sotto questa nuova gestione che il Jet Provost venne proposto al pubblico internazionale, riscuotendo un discreto successo in Ceylon (l'attuale Sri Lanka), Iraq, Venezuela e Sudan.
Fu a questo punto che venne creata una versione specifica per l'attacco al suolo, lo Strikemaster, di cui furono costruiti 146 esemplari, in servizio presso diverse forze aeree in tutto il mondo.

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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on the archives and collections of Bombardier Belfast and Ulster Aviation Society, this volume contains much previously unpublished material.

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Scotland's Aviation History

Racconta la storia dello sviluppo dell'aviazione in Scozia. Sebbene tratti principalmente dell'era del volo a motore, la narrazione inizia con i primi tentativi di volo compiuti da scozzesi, per poi passare all'aviazione pallone.
Tuttavia, il fulcro principale del libro è il XX secolo, a partire dall'incontro di Lanark del 1910 e dalla gara aerea del Daily Mail del 1911. L'aviazione pionieristica viene rapidamente seguita dalla Prima Guerra Mondiale e dalle attività del Royal Flying Corps a Montrose e altrove.

La narrazione prosegue con lo sviluppo dell'aviazione civile nel dopoguerra, con l'apertura di aeroporti, servizi per le isole, elicotteri e altro ancora. I lettori che non hanno familiarità con lo stile di Ord-Hume scopriranno uno scrittore arguto che al tempo stesso produce una narrazione coerente e intelligente, un compito arduo per un argomento così complesso, il che forse spiega perché autori meno talentuosi abbiano evitato di cimentarsi in un'impresa simile.

Questo libro è ricco di oltre 200 fotografie: ogni spazio bianco rimanente è colmo di didascalie lunghe e dettagliate, scritte da un uomo che conosce a fondo l'argomento.

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British Aircraft Manufacturers Since 1909

Traces one hundred years of the British aviation industry, its history, origins, mergers and takeovers. It details the evolution of the British aviation industry and is an epitaph to household famous names such as Armstrong-Whitworth, de Havilland, Chadwick, Claude-Graham White, Sopwith, A. V. Roe, Mitchell, Hawker, Handley Page, Petter and Fairey to name but a few. Of more recent times, the likes of Sidney Camm, Hooker and Hooper, all of whom, made VTOL more than just a dream, are also covered in astonishing and exhausting detail.

Of the major firms, most at some time or other have been absorbed, merged or reorganised to form a single conglomerate, BAe Systems and Rolls-Royce are chronicled from the outset to the mighty companies they are today. Only PBN-Britten Norman - who on several occasions escaped extinction due to financial difficulties - and Westland, now part of AgustaWestland, and Short Bros of Northern Ireland remain independent, although even the latter, are part of Canadian, Bombardier Co.

"British Aircraft Manufacturers since 1909" tells the complete and enthralling story of how Britain ruled the world in terms of manufacturing and aircraft design from nimble but fragile biplanes and majestic airliners that united the world to the advanced bombers and fighters of today.

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British & Allied Aircraft Manufacturers of the First World War

At the start of the First World War, little thought had been given to how aircraft would play a part in the conflict. The Royal Flying Corps consisted of five squadrons, one equipped with observation balloons and the others with aircraft. In fact, so advanced was Britain that its squadrons were the first in the world.

Along with the Royal Flying Corps, Britain also had the Royal Naval Air Service, which pioneered the use of aircraft carriers. The value of aircraft was soon realised and rapid expansion took place of both services, each using a variety of aircraft from Sopwith Pups and Camels, to Bristol F.2Bs and the huge Handley page O/400 bombers, as well as Vickers Vimys, Martinsyde G.100s and Avro 504s.

With a wide range of aircraft of all types, from fighters to bombers, seaplanes and reconnaissance types, the British air forces started the war with barely 150 aircraft but ended it with thousands.

Terry Treadwell takes us through the various types, their uses and history, and this companion to his "German and Austro-Hungarian Aircraft Manufacturers" is profusely illustrated with images of the men and machines that protected the skies of the Allied territories.

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