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The Vickers Viscount: The World's First Turboprop Airliner by Nick Stroud (Engli
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- ISBN-13
- 9781526701954
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- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Vickers Viscount: the World's First Turboprop Airliner
- Item Height
- 246mm
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Topic
- Transport Technology, History
- Item Width
- 189mm
- Number of Pages
- 120 Pages
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By some margin the most successful British medium-range airliner ever produced, the world-beating Viscount was a sublime combination of Vickers state-of-the-art post-war design and Rolls-Royce s cutting-edge power-plant technology, both companies being at the very peak of their powers during the type s genesis and evolution. Tracing its origins back to the wartime Brabazon Committee, the Viscount was one of several designs from various British aircraft manufacturers produced to fulfill the committee s specifications for a fast, economical short- to medium-range airliner to satisfy the demands of the burgeoning post-war civil aviation market, which was predicted to grow at a healthy rate over the following decades. Vickers chief designer and Managing Director George Edwards was quick to respond, the result being the Dart turboprop-powered Vickers V.630, which made its first flight in July 1948, despite its future looking uncertain after British European Airways having twenty examples of ordered its chief rival, Airspeed s Ambassador, six months before. The Viscount nevertheless entered full service with BEA in 1953, much to the relief of its manufacturer, orders flooding in thereafter from numerous airlines and air forces all over the world. Ultimately, some 200 individual airlines, companies and organisations in more than eighty countries operated the dependable and, crucially, development-friendly Viscount over its long and distinguished career. This book tells the full story of the world s first turboprop airliner, from its Brabazon Committee beginnings, through its early flight trials programme and entry into service, to its almost unassailable position as the world s number one medium-haul turboprop, including its astonishing breakthrough in the USA, where it single-handedly broke the big American manufacturers stranglehold on the airliner market. The type s military career is also covered, as is its construction; also included in this volume are details of the numerous variants produced and those of the 444 built still surviving as exhibits today, along with twenty-four superb artworks by world-renowned aviation illustrator Juanita Franzi. AUTHOR: Nick Stroud, son of Mike Stroud (Founding Editor of IATA News Review and Founding Assistant Editor of Aircraft Illustrated), has worked full-time in aviation publishing since 1994, when he began his career working on Aerospace Publishing s highly-respected titles World Air Power Journal and Wings of Fame. During 2000 2010 Nick realised a lifelong ambition to work for another highly-regarded aviation publication, IPC s award-winning Aeroplane Monthly, with which he rose to the position of Deputy Editor. In 2012 Nick and Aeroplane Editor Michael Oakey launched The Aviation Historian, a fiercely independent quarterly journal, which continues to grow and has established a reputation as the UK's most authoritative independent publication on the subject. Nick is also the UK Editor for Challenge Publications Air Classics and Warbirds International in the USA, and a regular feature writer for numerous aviation publications.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd
ISBN-13
9781526701954
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Book Title
The Vickers Viscount: the World's First Turboprop Airliner
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Transport Technology, History
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
120 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
246mm
Item Width
189mm
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United Kingdom
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