Over empires and oceans : pioneers, aviators and adventurers : forging the international air routes 1918-1939 / Robert Bluffield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bluffield, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Airways.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

East Sussex : Tattered Florida Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This a story of pioneers, intrepid aviators, adventurers, tycoons and innovators. It is also a story of dedication and determination, for despite fixed-wing aircraft proving their value over the battlefields of the Western Front during the First World War, convincing governments and public alike that they had a role in peacetime proved far more challenging. The Americans, as inventors of heavier-than-air powered flight, had briefly courted with a passenger airline across Tampa Bay in 1914, yet it took a further nine years for mail to be flown coast-to-coast. In 1919 a British company made the

Contents:

Introduction; Glossary; Chapter One Pie in the Sky - The Evolution of Flight; Chapter Two Europe Rises to the Aviation Challenge; Chapter Three The First Airlines; Chapter Four The Great War and Its Aftermath; Chapter Five Mail Before Passengers; Chapter Six German Expansion and Operations in South America and China; Chapter Seven Commercial Flying Commences in Britain; Chapter Eight The French Expand the Boundaries; Chapter Nine Imperial Airways; Chapter Ten East to Batavia - The Emergence of KLM; Chapter Eleven The American Odyssey; Chapter Twelve The Airline Trippe Built

Chapter Thirteen The Pacific ChallengeChapter Fourteen Atlantic Crossing; Chapter Fifteen Shrinking the Outback; Chapter Sixteen The Empire Mail Route to Australia; Chapter Seventeen Into America; Chapter Eighteen Coming of Age; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 8, 2014).

ISBN:

9780957689268

0957689268