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FLYING TO THE SUN

Written by Geoffrey Cuthbert
Published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1987
ISBN: 0340410205

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.

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Front cover

Cover of FLYING TO THE SUN by Geoffrey Cuthbert

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