Название: Western Region Steam (Almark Railways in View)
Автор: Frank Hornby, Norman Browne
Издательство: Almark Publishing
Год: 1977
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 80
Размер: 107,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Western Region Steam (Almark Railways in View)

Название: Aero Series 40 - The Boeing 747
Автор: David H. Minton
Издательство: TAB Books / Aero Publishers
Год: 1991
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 136
Размер: 11,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

If you're an airliner observer, historian, modeler, or simply have an interest in the Boeing 747, this book is For you. The Boeing 747 chronicles the history of this magnificent aircraft, taking you from its inception as the world's first wide-body airplane through the many upgrades and modifications that have made it a symbol of durability, range, and efficiency.

Название: British Industrial Steam Locomotives: A Pictorial Survey
Автор: David Mather
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526770172
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 208
Размер: 35,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The first steam locomotives used on any British railway, worked in industry. The use of new and second hand former main line locomotives, was once a widespread aspect of the railways of Britain.
This volume covers many of the once numerous manufacturers who constructed steam locomotives for industry and contractors from the 19th to the mid 20th centuries.

Название: Treasures of the National Air and Space Museum
Автор: Martin O Harwit
Издательство: Abbeville Press
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 324
Размер: 20,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is the world's most popular museum, with more than eight million visitors each year. The museum houses a celebrated collection of airplanes, spacecraft, and other artifacts that document the history of aviation and spaceflight. This book presents 280 artifacts from the museum's collection and archives, chronicling some of the greatest technological and human achievements of the century.

Название: The AEC Story: From the Regent to the Monarch
Автор: Brian Thackray
Издательство: Amberley Publishing
ISBN: 144560390X
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 255
Размер: 4,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

From 1929 until 1979, a succession of buses and trucks trundled out of the AEC works in Southall, Middlesex. Th e company was responsible for the successful Routemaster double-decker buses, used by London Transport, as well as numerous other bus and lorry designs. In this volume Brian Th ackray examines in some detail the AEC's passenger and commercial vehicle designs of the early and middle 1930s.

Название: The Epic of Flight - The Airline Builders
Автор: Oliver Allen
Издательство: Time-Life Books
Год: 1981
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 186
Размер: 26,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Another well researched and written book from Time-Life, this book details the founding and early years of America's major airlines. It contains a wealth of information on the personalities, struggles , competition and even the airplanes that constituted these new giants of transportation. A suprising fact was that the airline routes were really established by the U.S. Postmaster General, when airmail accounted for more revenue to the airlines than passenger fares. A must have for aviation enthusiasts.

Название: Final Journey: The Untold Story of Funeral Trains
Автор: Nicolas Wheatley
Издательство: The History Press
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 304
Размер: 29,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

This new history reveals the previously untold story of why and how trains have been used to transport the dead, enabling their burial in a place of significance to the bereaved. Profusely illustrated with many images, some never previously published, Nicolas Wheatley’s work details how the mainline railways carried out this important yet often hidden work from the Victorian age to the 1980s, as well as how ceremonial funeral transport continues on heritage railways today.

Название: Самолет Ил-18
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Транспорт
Год: 1974
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 333
Размер: 15,2 МБ
Язык: Русский

В книге изложены общие сведения о самолете, назначение и работа его основных систем и агрегатов, конструкция фюзеляжа, крыла, оперения, шасси, систем управления, гидросистемы, противопожарного, противообледенительного, высотного и бытового оборудования.

Название: Flugzeuge: Eine Geschichte der Luftfahrt in Wort und Bild
Автор: Rolf L. Temming
Издательство: Kaiser
Год: 1986
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 72
Размер: 127,2 МБ
Язык: Немецкий

Flugzeuge: Eine Geschichte der Luftfahrt in Wort und Bild

Название: Passenger Liners in Colour
Автор: David L. Williams
Издательство: Ian Allan
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 88
Размер: 126,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The final golden age of the ocean-going passenger liner was from the mid-1950s through to the late 1960s, when famous liners such as the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth, The United States, and the France, traversed the Atlantic.