Flying Boats and Spies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flying Boats and Spies write by Jamie Dodson. This book was released on 2008-06-01. Flying Boats and Spies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 1935! The winds of war have begun to fan the flames of conflict across the Pacific. As Nick Grant tries to support his mother and sister during the depression, he's swept into a deadly contest between spies struggling to control the Pacific Ocean. Nick's life abruptly changes the moment Anne Lindbergh offers him a month's wages to deliver a mysterious map case to Bill Grooch aboard the tramp steamer, the SS North Haven. Desperate for money, Nich agrees. Suddenly the map case and Grooch catapult him into a quiet, but deadly cat and mouse game between US and Japanese spies. Nick becomes a vital player in a mission spanning the Pacific Ocean: a mission vital to US security as well as a mortal danger to Japan.
Flying Boats
Flying Boats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flying Boats write by . This book was released on 2002. Flying Boats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1930, airfields were a rarity. Aircraft companies, given the unreliability of internal combustion engines, primitive avionics, and unpredictable weather, believed that an airplane could carry its landing strip with it, if the field were water. The brief but brilliant age of flying boats was born. Master maritime artist lan Marshall captures these magnificent machines in perfect detail.
High Hulls
High Hulls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook High Hulls write by Charles R. G. Bain . This book was released on 2018-11-27. High Hulls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For a time, the flying boat was seen as the way of the future. These aircraft, so strange and foreign to the modern mind, once criss-crossed the world and fulfilled essential military roles. In his latest book for Fonthill, Charles Bain looks at the golden age of the flying boat, when these sometimes strange and often beautiful vessels spanned the globe. These vessels-a combination of ship and airplane-found themselves working as patrol aircraft, passenger aircraft, transports, and even as combat aircraft. This volume contains their stories, from memorable aircraft such as the Short Sunderland and Boeing 314 Clipper, to the craft that roamed the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War, to forgotten giants from Saunders-Roe and even strange jet fighters that once landed like ducks. It even includes the flying boat that has not let time get in the way of doing its job-the Martin Mars. Each of these aircraft has a story worthy of the telling, and often a memorable role to play in the history of aviation. `High Hulls' delves deeply into a long-vanished part of aviation's golden age.
Wings Over Water
Wings Over Water - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wings Over Water write by David Oliver. This book was released on 1999. Wings Over Water available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wings over Water is a stunning showcase celebrating the role of flying boats, seaplanes, and amphibians. It is packed with informative features, aircraft biographies and specifications, and cutaway illustrations. Seaplanes and amphibians are photographed in their wartime roles, and as peacetime rescue vessels.
Short Brothers
Short Brothers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Short Brothers write by Philip Macdougall. This book was released on 2019-08-22. Short Brothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Short Brothers was established in 1908, the first British aircraft manufacturer, with the company moving to Rochester during the early years of the First World War. At Rochester Shorts produced some of their most famous aircraft, beginning with a number of designs for the Royal Naval Air Service. During the inter-war years the company specialised in large flying boats, these undertaking pioneering flights while establishing a series of regular over water air routes operated by Imperial Airways. At Rochester the Company designed and manufactured the Stirling bomber and Sunderland flying boat. Short Brothers: the Rochester Years not only looks at the development of those aircraft, but is a fascinating account of the early years of long-distance aviation and the airmen that used the River Medway at Rochester as a launch pad for flights of hitherto undreamed of distances.
