FLYING TO THE SUN
Written by Geoffrey Cuthbert
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
in 1987
ISBN: 0340410205
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FLYING TO THE SUN
Written by Geoffrey Cuthbert.
Stock no. 2139579
1st.
1987.
Hardback.
Large format.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Large format. Colour and b/w photos. A quarter of a century of Britannia Airways, Europe's leading leisure airline. ISBN: 0340410205. Bumping to top of spine. Foxing to outer page edges.
Front cover
Contents
- Preparing for Take-Off
- Chocks Away
- Lift-Off
- Gaining Height
- Flying 'By'
- Changing Course
- Going with Boeing
- Into the Jet Age
- Touchdown in the West and East
- Enter the 'Heavies'
- Password Over the Pacific
- Fleet is Dressed Overall
- Slight Political and Bureaucratic Turbulence
- Keeping them Flying
- Men of Power
- Looking After the Customers
- Training Hard
- Setting the Sales
- Flightpath into the Second Quarter Century
- Appendices: History of the Airline Fleet from 1962; Technical details of Main Fleet Aircraft from 1962
- Index