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Sopwith Aviation Company: Images of Aviation
Malcolm Hall
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Description for Sopwith Aviation Company: Images of Aviation
Paperback. A history of Sopwith Aircraft Company Series: Archive Photographs. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: KNGV; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 167 x 9. Weight in Grams: 314.
In the autumn of 1910, when he was twenty-two years old, Tommy Sopwith bought himself an aeroplane, took it to Brooklands aerodrome and taught himself to fly. In those early days he soon achieved prominence, capturing Britain's endurance and distance records - and the attention of King George V - within weeks of his first flight. He could hardly have imagined then, however, that just two years later he would be head of the Sopwith Aviation Company, nor that during the coming conflict that were to emerge from its workshops - and those of its many sub-contractors - thousands of ... Read more
In the autumn of 1910, when he was twenty-two years old, Tommy Sopwith bought himself an aeroplane, took it to Brooklands aerodrome and taught himself to fly. In those early days he soon achieved prominence, capturing Britain's endurance and distance records - and the attention of King George V - within weeks of his first flight. He could hardly have imagined then, however, that just two years later he would be head of the Sopwith Aviation Company, nor that during the coming conflict that were to emerge from its workshops - and those of its many sub-contractors - thousands of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Series
Archive Photographs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752411422
SKU
V9780752411422
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99-10
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