The Golden Age Of Air Travel

Author : Nina Hadaway
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747813477
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Air Travel written by Nina Hadaway and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the twentieth century travel by air was a luxury available only to the wealthy, and accordingly the airlines – Pan Am, BOAC, TWA, BEA and many others – offered premium services that connected far-flung parts of the world with con trails of glamour. This book looks back at the golden age, from the 1920s to the 1970s, when well-appointed airliners whisked the rich and famous around the world on holiday and on business. It evokes the chink of champagne glasses, the aroma of expensive cigars and the roar of early jet engines: the experience of air travel before package holidays and budget airlines changed flying forever. The various types of aircraft, the routes and the airports, as well as the changes undergone by the industry, are all explored here and illustrated by fascinating historical material.

Author : Nina Hadaway
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747812234
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Air Travel written by Nina Hadaway and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air travel has always held a strong allure for many. Today, low-cost, no-frill airlines enable lots of people to fly easily and to visit different countries around the world. For much of its history, however, air travel was only available to the wealthy. This book explores the golden age of air travel from the 1930s to the 1970s when flying was the epitome of status, and the airlines offered a sumptuous service with the journey being all important. The dramatic changes in the quality of air travel are highlighted, as are the different types of aircraft employed by the air travel companies, including airships, jetliners and Concorde. The emphasis, however, is on conveying to the reader what it was like to be a passenger on board these commercial flights as well as the experience of those serving with the airlines.

Author : Lynn Johnson
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book En Route written by Lynn Johnson and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1993-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Airline luggage labels from the 20s through the early 50s.

Author : Tom Quinn
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings Over the World written by Tom Quinn and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays air travel is as routine as catching a bus. But before the war, it was truly extraordinary. A giant Handley-Page biplane bound for Paris, bouncing along Croydon Aerodrome's grass runway, meant seat belts were primarily needed before take-off. Africa by Empire flying boat was a five-day aerial voyage via lakes that had to be cleared of hippos before touchdown. On a wartime Boeing flying boat crossing the Atlantic, the navigator plotted his course by the stars. Now, historian Tom Quinn records the remarkable reminiscences of British pilots, navigators, stewardesses, and station commanders. Abundantly illustrated with period posters, photos, and memorabilia, this is stirring social history from the edge of living memory.

Author : Brendan I. Koerner
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307886115
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skies Belong to Us written by Brendan I. Koerner and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history. In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when shattered Army veteran Roger Holder and mischievous party girl Cathy Kerkow managred to comandeer Western Airlines Flight 701 and flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom—a heist that remains the longest-distance hijacking in American history. More than just an enthralling story about a spectacular crime and its bittersweet, decades-long aftermath, The Skies Belong to Us is also a psychological portrait of America at its most turbulent and a testament to the madness that can grip a nation when politics fail.

Author : Matthias C. Hühne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783981655025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airline Visual Identity, 1945-1975 written by Matthias C. Hühne and published by . This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collector's Limited Edition A super stylish journey: The ultimate sourcebook for the best airline graphic design presented in a handcrafted, aluminum covered clamshell caseArguably no other book has been produced with such technical sophistication in recent years and few design books have received such an overwhelming worldwide media resonance. Airline Visual Identity 1945-1975 rounds up the most imaginative, influential and surprising designs of the airlines' commercial art from the "golden age of flying." It provides an unprecedented, systematic outline of the development of the visual identities of thirteen pioneering airlines, combining innovative research and stunning, museum-like presentations of hundreds of spectacular aviation posters, photos and other illustrations. Conceived by some of the world's top creative minds, such as Ivan Chermayeff, Otl Aicher, Massimo Vignelli, Academy Award winner Saul Bass, or advertising titan Mary Wells Lawrence, the designs found in the book's case studies also illustrate the shift from traditional methods of corporate design and advertising to comprehensive modern branding programs which took place in the same period.To reproduce all of the images as precisely as possible, a total of seventeen different colors, five different varnishes, and two different methods of foil printing and embossing were used. The result is a book of exceptional vivacity that pushes the limits of modern art printing technology. The Premium Edition has received glowing reviews in leading media around the world, including The New York Times, Newsweek, CNN, New Republic, Slate, Adweek, and dozens of others in the United States, France, Britain, Germany, China, Japan, Switzerland, Austria, Australia, Spain, Italy, Norway, etc. Created by internationally recognized art book publisher Callisto and designed by distinguished Berlin-based designer Yvonne Quirmbach, Airline Visual Identity 1945-1975 was produced in a renowned printing facility in northern Italy on deluxe 200g Fedrigoni paper. The clamshell case, also designed by Yvonne Quirmbach and limited to an edition of 999, was handcrafted in Berlin, Germany and features a metal cover similar in appearance to the aluminum alloy used to manufacture jet aircraft in the 1960s.

Author : Paul Jarvis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445679280
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Airways written by Paul Jarvis and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning posters that chart the development and romance of air travel. In association with British Airways.

Author : Robert S. Hirsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976196020
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aircraft of Air Racing's Golden Age written by Robert S. Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardbound. History of Air Racing between 1928 and 1939. 487 pages.

Author : Bryce Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135009885X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food and Aviation in the Twentieth Century written by Bryce Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established by New York stockbroker Juan Trippe in 1927, the story of Pan Am is the story of US-led globalisation and imperial expansion in the twentieth century, with the airline achieving the vast majority of 'firsts' in aviation history, pioneering transoceanic travel and new technologies, and all but creating the glitz, style and ambience eulogised in Frank Sinatra's 'Come Fly with Me'. Bryce Evans investigates an aspect of the airline service that was central to the company's success, its food; a gourmet glamour underpinned by both serious science and attention to the detail of fine dining culture. Modelled on the elite dining experience of the great ocean liners, the first transatlantic and transpacific flights featured formal thirteen course dinners served in art deco cabins and served by waiters in white waist-length jackets and garrison hats. As flight times got faster and altitudes higher, Pan Am pioneered the design of hot food galleys and commissioned research into how altitude and pressure affected taste buds, amending menus accordingly. A tale of collaboration with chefs from the best Parisian restaurants and the wining and dining of politicians and film stars, the book also documents what food service was like for flight attendants, exploring how the golden age of airline dining was underpinned by a racist and sexist culture. Written accessibly and with an eye for the glamour and razzamatazz of public aviation history, Bryce Evans' research into Pan Am airways will be valuable for scholars of food studies and aviation, consumer, tourism, transport and 20th century American history.

Author : Julia Cooke
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 0358251400
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Come Fly the World written by Julia Cooke and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2021 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lively, unexpected portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am airways between 1966 and 1975"--