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Mike Machat

Teoksen Pan Am: An Airline and Its Aircraft tekijä

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Machat, Mike

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The photos in this edition are black and white. Still the fastest multi-engine piston aircraft ever flown, the Republic XR-12 and its competitor, the Hughes XF-11, were well ahead of their time in 1946. Envisioned as a long-range photo-reconnaissance aircraft with a top speed of more than 450 mph, the Republic XR-12 also offered near jet-like performance for the world's airlines with a 44-passenger commercial version named the Rainbow. Using original Republic photos, data, and artwork, the author reveals never-before-published information about the Rainbow airliner. While the clear emphasis of this book is on the Republic airplane, the Hughes XF-11 is also covered and compared in its role as a twin-engine competitor to the more advanced four-engine Republic airplane.… (lisätietoja)
 
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MasseyLibrary | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jul 7, 2023 |
Overall, not bad
The comparisons to the XF-11 were an inspired idea and help put the aircraft in perspective. The text was fair while the photographs and illustrations are excellent.

The book is too small to cover one aircraft and its potential, but it is a notable effort.
I look forward to more publishing efforts from Mr. Machat.
 
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jetcal1 | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Apr 19, 2019 |
This is a book about one of the greatest names in airline & air transport history. Trans World Airlines (or Transcontinental & Western Air when it was first formed) has contributed more to the technological advance of commercial aviation than any other airline, except possibly Pan American Airways, which launched two jet ages. But during the formative years, when aviation was yet young, T.W.A. was always in the vanguard of progress. One of its ancestors, Western Air Express, started the first sustained passenger service of all the airlines created by the legislation of 1925 & 1926. The other ancestor, Transcontinental Air Transport (T.A.T.) pioneered transcontinental passenger transport with the aid of a famous airplane, the Ford Tri-Motor. It was selected by the airline's technical advisor, none other than Charles Lindbergh--who also planned the route & flew the inaugural flight from Los Angeles, while Amelia Earhart christened the first Ford out of New York. Again with Lindbergh's blessing, T.W.A. sponsored the prototype of the famous Douglas twin-engined DC series, with which, for the first time, a United States manufacturer was able to start an export trade with modern airliners. T.W.A.'s Tommy Tomlinson did the high-altitude research that led, with the Boeing 307, to the introduction of pressurized comfort--flying "above the weather." Owner Howard Hughes played a large part in setting the specification for the elegant Constellation airliners, which a British commentator described as "America's Secret Weapon" in the development of the post-war generations. Such was the excellence of the Kansas City Engineering Base that, at the beginning of the Jet Age, against fierce competition, a single Bowing 707 operated for a whole month, without incident, or even delay. In more recent years (as might be expected of "The Airline of the Stars") T.W.A. was the first to show on board full-length movies. At the other end of the amenities spectrum, it conducted an impressive trans-Atlantic cattle airlift. It has survived near-bankruptcy, mainly because of the intense loyalty of its staff. It was the first U.S. airline to introduce twin-engined ETOPS trans-Atlantic operations. It just started nonstop transcontinental service into Washington's National Airport, the first effective inter-city time-saving since 1958. The list of achievements for this great airline is a long one; & Paladwr Press has tried to record & narrate most of them in the pages of this book. It is illustrated with almost 200 photographs, 30 maps & 48 precision drawings by Mike Machat, & it lists every one of the more than 1,200 individual aircraft that has proudly worn red & white colours of T.W.A.… (lisätietoja)
 
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MasseyLibrary | Sep 27, 2018 |
Beautiful original artwork, great photos, overview of the history of Pan Am through the aircraft they flew. An illustrated history of the world's greatest airline and the airplanes that revolutionized air transport from 1927 to the present.
This book covers all the aircraft that served Pan Am down through the decades, from tri-motors to jumbo jets (and the Clippers, of course !!!) It also talks about the various smaller airlines that PAA absorbed in it's rise to the peak of it's profession.
 
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MasseyLibrary | Mar 29, 2018 |

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