Gloster Aircraft Company - Couverture souple

James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 075240038X ISBN 13 : 9780752400389

Editeur : The History Press, 2009

Synopsis

Gloster Aircraft Company Gloster Aircraft Company, with its forebears H H Martyn & Company and Gloucestershire Aircraft Company (GAC), produced some 10,000 aeroplanes between 1917 and 1963. It also provided employment for countless thousands of local people. This title portrays some of those people who worked 'up at the 'drome for GAC' and the works of their hands. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Gloster Aircraft Company had its foundation in 1917 and in 1934 the company was taken over by Hawker Aircraft, though it continued to produce aircraft under its own name. In that same year the company produced the famous Gladiator biplane. Having no modern designs of its own in production, Gloster undertook manufacture for the parent company Hawker. During the Second World War it built more than 6,000 Hurricanes and Typhoons. The Gloster Meteor was the first operational Allied jet fighter aircraft of the Second World War, commencing operations in mid-1944, only some weeks later than the world's first operational jet, the German Messerschmitt Me 262. In 1945 a Meteor gained a World Airspeed Record of 606 mph. Meteors remained in service with several air forces and saw action in the Korean War. In 1952, the two seat, delta winged Gloster Javelin was developed as an all-weather fighter that could fly above 50,000 feet. In 1961, the company was merged with Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Limited to form Whitworth Gloster Aircraft Limited. Following re-organisation, the firm became part of the Avro Whitworth Division of Hawker Siddeley Aviation in 1963, and the name Gloster disappeared.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Derek James began his working life as an engineering apprentice at GAC, commencing a lifetime service to aviation. He served in the RAF, and then worked with the Gloster Company, the S.A.B.C. and the Dowty Group. He is the author of fourteen aviation books and has participated in many television and radio programmes.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: The History Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 075240038X
• ISBN 13: 9780752400389
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160