From pioneering jets to the foundations of some of today's most successful aircraft, the experimental aircraft of the post-war years represent the most exciting years of British aviation. This book tells their remarkable stories, of the triumphs and frustrations of experimentation at the cutting edge of aeronautical design.
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Since the early 1960s Barry Jones has followed a freelance career of illustrating, photography and writing for the aircraft and automobile industries. This has included supplying the Hawker Siddeley Group, Fairey Aviationa and Edgar Percival Aircraft.
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taxiing trials, normal service ceiling, research aeroplane, parachute housing, intake lips, braking parachute, trials aircraft, nose boom, nose probe, test airframe, outer wing sections, jet efflux, fuselage nacelle, tricycle undercarriage, static thrust, conventional flight, fin leading edge, arrester hook, maiden flight, wing fences, cockpit canopy, flight trials, rear fuselage, ejector seat, flying surfaces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- English Electric (Images of England) by Derek James on page 120, and page 202
- Teaching History at University: Enhancing Learning and Understanding by Alan Booth on page 23, and page 95
- Northern Ireland by Robert Blair on page 123
- Northern Ireland (Cambridge Regional Geography) by Douglas A. Hill on page 123
- Middle East (Pt. 19) on page 102
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