Vickers Aircraft Since 1908

{detailed description}1969 Funk and Wagnalls 1st US edn.
This work describes in detail the aircraft designed and built by Vickers since the time when the great shipbuilding and armaments firm was asked by the Admiralty to design and construct a naval rigid airship. In the early period was the famous Gunbus and then the Vimy which failed to see active service but made history by making the first nonstop aeroplane crossing of the North Atlantic and the first flight between England and Australia. Of special interest are the detailed descriptions of the well-known and little- known designs of the between-wars period : the Vernon, Victoria and Valentia which served the Royal Air Force as bomber- transports, the Viking amphibians, the Viastra transports and many others such as the Vespa which gained the world's height record. The story of the Wellington is told in great detail, and full production lists are included. The period since World War II covers the Viking, Viscount, Vanguard and VC10 civil airliners and also the RAF's first service four-jet bomber - the Valiant. The author, who has spent his life in aviation, has had access to a mass of un-published material and records here a wealth of detail of Vickers activities not previously disclosed. Many of the photographs are of exceptional interest and the three-view drawings are based on very accurate factory originals.
{Author / Publisher / Date}by C. F. Andrews
1969 Funk and Wagnalls 1st US edn. 566pp
{condition}very good in spine faded and slightly worn d/j.
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