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Flight of The Mew Gull

- Record-breaking flying in the 1930s
Af: Alex Henshaw Engelsk Paperback

Flight of The Mew Gull

- Record-breaking flying in the 1930s
Af: Alex Henshaw Engelsk Paperback
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Alex Henshaw had the luck to grow up in the ''20s and ''30s during the golden age of flying. The Blue Riband of flying in the British Isles between the two World Wars was the King''s Cup: Henshaw set his heart on it, developing a technique of racing which extracted the very maximum from his aircraft: first the Comper Swift and then the DH Leopard Moth. Parallel with his search for speed was an obsession with making accurate landfalls, and he developed this blind-flying taken deliberately in a flying partnership with his father on many carefully planned long-distance survey flights. His exciting apprenticeship in these two skills was crowned by the acquisition of the Percival Mew Gull G-AEXF in 1937. His amazing solo flight to Cape Town and back in February 1939 established several solo records that still stand today, almost 60 years later. This feat of navigation and airmanship must surely be one of man''s greatest flights - 12,754 miles over desert, sea and jungle in a single-engined light aircraft.
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Alex Henshaw had the luck to grow up in the ''20s and ''30s during the golden age of flying. The Blue Riband of flying in the British Isles between the two World Wars was the King''s Cup: Henshaw set his heart on it, developing a technique of racing which extracted the very maximum from his aircraft: first the Comper Swift and then the DH Leopard Moth. Parallel with his search for speed was an obsession with making accurate landfalls, and he developed this blind-flying taken deliberately in a flying partnership with his father on many carefully planned long-distance survey flights. His exciting apprenticeship in these two skills was crowned by the acquisition of the Percival Mew Gull G-AEXF in 1937. His amazing solo flight to Cape Town and back in February 1939 established several solo records that still stand today, almost 60 years later. This feat of navigation and airmanship must surely be one of man''s greatest flights - 12,754 miles over desert, sea and jungle in a single-engined light aircraft.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9781840370218
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1840370211
Kategori: Ingeniørvidenskabens og teknologiens historie
Udg. Dato: 1 apr 2003
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 157mm
Højde: 234mm
Forlag: The Crowood Press Ltd
Oplagsdato: 1 apr 2003
Forfatter(e): Alex Henshaw
Forfatter(e) Alex Henshaw

Kategori Ingeniørvidenskabens og teknologiens historie

ISBN-13 9781840370218

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 272

Udgave

Længde 23mm

Bredde 157mm

Højde 234mm

Udg. Dato 1 apr 2003

Oplagsdato 1 apr 2003

Forlag The Crowood Press Ltd

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