Douglas J. Ingells

This is one of the great sagas of the sky, the dynamic history of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, aerospace giant of the 70s, and its fabulous L-1011, most advanced technology second generation jetliner in the Spacious Age of flight. It is the story of half a million dedicated men and women - employees at Lockheed at one time or another - and their trials and triumphs in man's never-ending quest to touch a star. In narrative style the author takes you back to the formative years when the Brothers Allen and Malcolm Loughead (pronounced 'Lockheed') designed and built the Model-G hydroplane in 1913, first of the line that would make the name LOCKHEED symbolic with leadership in aviation and space technology. Be there with Amelia Earhart, Lindbergh, Ruth Nichols, Frank Hawks, Roscoe Turner, Jimmy Doolittle, Sir Hubert Wilkins and many others in their famous Lockheeds of the thirties, planes that flew higher, farther, faster to make the Lockheed Winged Star insigne the brightest in the heavens. You will see the airliner become a bomber and a small struggling airframe manufacturer become a great winged arsenal. Lockheed at war, producing the thousands of warplanes including the famous fork-tailed P-38 "Lightning". For the first time, you will see "the other face" of Howard Hughes and learn his true role in the design and development of the "Constellation" super luxury airliner of the immediate post-war period. Then, learn the secrets of famed aeronautical designer, C. L. "Kelly" Johnson and his SKUNK WORKS where Lockheed produced the P-80 "Shooting Star", America's first combat jet fighter, the U-2 spyplane that almost touched off WWIII, and the triplesonic SR-71 "Blackbird" a triumph in titanium technology, magic metal of the Supersonic Age. Read the story of the birth of the C-5A "Galaxy" world's largest airplane, the evolution of the "TriStar" L-1011 from concept to creation and much more. The book includes more than 300 collector's item photographs.… (plus d'informations)

History of the world's largest commercial jetliner - designers, engineers, and test pilots. The story of the birth of the world's largest commercial jetliner, including a great history of the Boeing Company. Extensively illustrated with black and white and color photographs. This narrative history of Boeing tells of the founder, William Edward (Bill) Boeing and his 1914 Curtiss Hydroplane; of the first ''Stratoliner'' that introduced the pressurized cabin; lets you ride ''up front'' with the test pilots on the maiden flight and much more.… (plus d'informations)