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Embracing the world - civil aviation post 1945.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Century of flight ;v15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aeronautics--History.
- Aeronautics.
- Airplanes--History.
- Airplanes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (52 mins.).
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : British Broadcasting Corporation Worldwide ; [Pyrmont, N.S.W.] : Roadshow Entertainment [distributor], c2009.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- The airlines get back on their feet - immediate post World Ward II developments and how land-based aircraft took over from flying boats for long-haul flights. The coming of jet travel - the Comet and other early jet airliners, turbojets, turboprops, and turbofans (including diagrams to explain the differences), the Jumbo. Supersonic flight - Concorde and Concordski. Air crashes and accident investigation - some notable air disasters and miraculous escapes, and how air crashes are investigated to establish the cause. Terrorism and the air. Air safety - how air traffic control works (includes diagrams).
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 17, 2012).
- "The epic story of human triumph in the sky"--Original container.
- Previously published as DVD.
- OCLC:
- 689524550
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