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When five-year-old Bob Williams flew to Berlin with his family in a noisy, freezing Avro Tudor, his mother was in tears, but he thought it was the most exciting event of his young life. Having been bitten by the aviation bug, he found there was no cure and made up his mind he would always work with aircraft. Starting as an apprentice engineer with British Eagle, he experienced the first of several redundancies when they folded in 1968. Dan-Air sponsored him for his commercial pilotâ¿s licence, and he gained his command on their Boeing 737s before being made redundant once more. Over the decades that followed he would fly for ten different airlines, only two of which have survived. He rose to the rank of Chief Pilot, and the story of his career is, in many ways, the story of a remarkable industry that flourished in the years following World War Two but experienced many failures and setbacks along the way. Born to Fly is essential reading for those who want to understand the remarkable growth and periodic failures of Britainâ¿s airlines, or those who seek only a good read and the heartwarming story of a boy who lived his dreams.
The Unravelling provides an insightful fictional exploration of two of the most pressing issues of our time - dementia and mental illness - told with compassion and humour.
Nigel Harrisson always wanted to be a pilot. From an early age he built balsa wood models, flying them from the grounds of the Alexandra Palace, and he joined the wartime RAF as soon as he was old enough.
Since the dawn of the automobile actors, musicians, artists and athletes have loved their cars. In this beautifully written, lavishly illustrated tribute, Daryl West shows us some of the remarkable machines that have been treasured by the stars of stage and screen over the decades.
Jeff Gray won the Distinguished Flying Medal in command of a Lancaster bomber. After the war he flew the York, Hermes, Stratocruiser, Comet 4, and VC10. In this beautifully written memoir he takes the reader from agricultural work in rural Scotland to a Lancaster over Berlin, and on to the challenges of airline flying in the post-war years.
The birth and history of what is often described as the most beautiful and graceful airliner of the piston-engine age.
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