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TWA: AN AIRLINE AND ITS AIRCRAFT

Written by R.E.G. Davies
Illustrated by Mike Machat
Published by Paladwr Press in 2000
ISBN: 188896216X

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TWA: AN AIRLINE AND ITS AIRCRAFT
Written by R.E.G. Davies. Illustrated by Mike Machat.
Stock no. 2139593
1st USA. 2000. Hardback. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

75 Years of Pioneering Progress. Oblong format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 188896216X. Some light browning to wrapper.

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Cover of TWA: AN AIRLINE AND ITS AIRCRAFT by R.E.G. Davies

Contents

  • Foreword
  • Post Office Prelude
  • The Four Horsemen
  • Veteran Elegance
  • The Model Airway
  • Flying Boats to Avalon
  • Standard to Texas (and Beyond)
  • Hanshue Builds a Network
  • The Shotgun Marriage
  • Transcontinental Air-Rail
  • Maddux Air Lines
  • The Grand Plan of
  • The Competition
  • Air Mail Scandal
  • Start of a New Era
  • Single Engined Swan Song
  • The Ubiquitous Gooney Bird
  • More and More DC-3s
  • Enter Howard Hughes
  • Above the Weather
  • War Effort
  • The Cabin Crews
  • Atlantic Service
  • TWA's Constellation Fleet
  • Fairchild C-82A Packet
  • Constellation Scrapbook
  • DC-3 Replacement
  • The Second Line
  • Prelude to the Jet Age
  • The Boeing 707-100 Fleet
  • The Boeing 707-300 Fleet
  • Speed at All Costs
  • Atlantic Number One
  • SST and the Second Line
  • (Caravelle, Concorde, Boeing 2707)
  • TWA's First Short-Haul Jet Fleets
  • Stretched to the Limit
  • Workhorse Jet
  • Wide-Bodied Era
  • More Range
  • The Big Tri-Jet
  • The Long-Haul Twin
  • Introduction
  • Western Air Express Begins
  • Douglas M-2
  • The Way It Was
  • Fokker F-10
  • Rocky Mountain Route
  • Along the Northwest Coast
  • Fokker F-32
  • Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor
  • Port Columbus
  • Ford 4-AT Tri-Motor
  • Transcontinental & Western Air
  • Curtiss Condor CO
  • Historic Prototype
  • Douglas DC-2
  • Lockheed Vega 5 and Orion 9E
  • Douglas DC-3
  • The Douglas Twins
  • Stinson A (tri-motor) (Marquette)
  • Boeing 307B Stratoliner
  • Post-War Reconstruction
  • Flight Deck Memories
  • Douglas DC-4
  • Lockheed Constellation 049
  • Lockheed Super-Constellation 1049G
  • Lockheed 1649A Starliner
  • Constellation Commentary
  • Martin 202
  • Martin 404
  • Boeing 707-131
  • A New Era
  • Boeing 707-331B
  • Convair 880
  • Howard's End
  • Boeing 727-31
  • Douglas DC-9-14
  • McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82 (MD-82)
  • Boeing 727-231
  • Boeing 747-131
  • Boeing 747SP
  • Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 1
  • Boeing 767-200ER
  • Into the 1970s
  • Local Service in the Midwest
  • Ozark's DC-3 Replacements (Martin 404)
  • Regional Status
  • Early Air Tax Links
  • More Connections
  • (Jetstream/Fairchild Metro III)
  • Troubled Times
  • Into the 21st Century
  • Lest We Forget
  • TWA Miscellany
  • The Family Tree
  • The New Tycoon
  • Ozark's DC-3 (Challenger 250)
  • Ozark's Turboprops (Fairchild FH-277)
  • Douglas DC-9-30
  • TWA Connections
  • (Saab 340)
  • Trans-world Express (ATR 42)
  • Boeing 757
  • Boeing 717 (ex-MD-95)
  • 90% on the Ground
  • Airline of the Stars
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index