Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Foreword by Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge
• Author's Preface and Acknowledgements
• The First Airlines
• The Vision of George Holt Thomas
• Airline Blueprint for Britain
• The First Cross-Channel Air Services
• Aircraft Transport and Travel
• The First de Havillands
• Developing the Breed
• Handley Page Transport
• Handley Page O/400
• The Instone Air Line
• Vickers Vimy Commercial
• The Daimler Airway
• De Havilland D.H. 34
• The Other Pioneer Airlines
• British Marine Air Navigation
• Foundation of Impreial Airways
• The First Fleet
• The Inherited Aircraft
• An Airport for London
• Survey to India
• Cobham Blazes an Empire Trail
• First Routes to the East
• De Havilland D.H. 66 Hercules
• The Silver Wing
• Armstrong Whitworth Argosy
• Imperial Review its Options
• First Flight to India
• Around Africa by Flying Boat
• Imperial to East Africa
• Italian Intransigence
• Short S.8 Calcutta
• Airship Digression
• Airships to India the Preparations
• End of an Era The R.101 Disaster
• A New Era Begins
• Short S.17 Kent
• Handley Page H.P. 42/45
• Luxury Aloft
• Behond: a True Airliner
• Cape-to-Cairo (mostly) by Air
• Armstrong Whitworth A.W. Atlanta Class
• Trailblazer to Australia
• An Empire Network
• Short L.17 (Scylla/Syrinx)
• Comfort before Speed
• Talking to the Air
• The Second Line
• Last of the Biplanes
• Testing the Waters
• The First British Domestic Routes
• A Modest Beginning
• The Pioneer Independents
• The Curtain Rises
• De Havilland D.H. 83 Fox Moth
• De Havilland D.H. 84 Dragon
• Edward "Ted" Hillman
• Hillman's Airways
• Edmund Fresson
• Highland Airways
• Eric Gandar Dower
• Aberdeen/Allied Airways
• John Sword: First to the Hebrides... and across the Irish Sea
• Highland Scrapbook
• Independence Eroded... but independence Retained
• The Spithead Express
• Westland Wessex
• Western Enterprise
• On the Fringe
• Two of the Casualties
• Hardy Survivor
• The Forces Gather... and Spar for Control
• Railway Air Services
• De Havilland D.H. 89 Dragon Rapide
• The Wake-Up Call
• The "Mac.Robertson" Race
• Imperial Struggles On
• De Havilland D.H. 86 Express
• Realignment in Britain
• Scottish Airways
• Thurgood Thrives
• Jersey and Guernsey Airways
• Inter-War Second Force
• Formation of British Airways
• Expansion in Europe
• The First Foreign Aircraft
• A Fokker and a Junkers
• Lockheed L-10 Electra
• The Case fot he Large Flying Boat
• Short S.23 "C-Class"
• Atlantic Debut
• The North Atlantic Survey
• Flagships of the Imperial Fleet
• Shrinking the Empire
• Romance of the Flying Boat... in Faraway Places
• Armstrong Whitworth A.W. 27 Ensign
• De Havilland D.H. 91 Albatross
• Consolidation in Britain
• De Havilland D.H. 95 Flamingo
• Restructuring an Industry
• The Imperial Legacy
• Bibliography
• Index