Aircraft Museums Of The United Kingdom

Author : Frank E. Hitchens
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1785384503
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aircraft Museums of the United Kingdom written by Frank E. Hitchens and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aircraft Museums of the United Kingdom has been written for the aviation enthusiast with an interest in aircraft from the past. Aircraft range throughout the museums from 1909 up to recent years. Thirty-five museums are listed within this book and each is presented on its merits for the aircraft displayed. A brief description of each museum describes aircraft of special interest, museum presentation and lighting quality for photographing the aircraft. Also included is a list of aircraft held by each museum with over 300 photographs included, plus address and contact details for each museum. The aircraft museums are all part of the UK's aviation heritage to be preserved for the enjoyment of the present and future generations. All are worth a visit for their exhibits of aircraft from days gone by.

Author : Linda Young
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442239778
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom written by Linda Young and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom: A History addresses the phenomenon of historic houses as a distinct species of museum. Everyone understands the special nature of an art museum, a national museum, or a science museum, but “house museum” nearly always requires clarification. In the United States the term is almost synonymous with historic preservation; in the United Kingdom, it is simply unfamiliar, the very idea being conflated with stately homes and the National Trust. By analyzing the motivation of the founders, and subsequent keepers, of house museums, Linda Young identifies a typology that casts light on what house museums were intended to represent and their significance (or lack thereof) today. This book examines: • heroes’ houses: once inhabited by great persons (e.g., Shakespeare’s birthplace, Washington’s Mount Vernon); • artwork houses: national identity as specially visible in house design, style, and technique (e.g., Frank Lloyd Wright houses, Modernist houses); • collectors’ houses: a microcosm of collecting in situ domesticu, subsequently presented to the nation as the exemplars of taste (e.g., Sir John Soane’s Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum); • English country houses: the palaces of the aristocracy, maintained thanks to primogeniture but threatened with redundancy and rescued as museums to be touted as the peak of English national culture; English country houses: the palaces of the aristocracy, maintained for centuries thanks to primogeniture but threatened by redundancy and strangely rescued as museums, now touted as the peak of English national culture; • Everyman/woman’s social history houses: the modern, demotic response to elite houses, presented as social history but tinged with generic ancestor veneration (e.g., tenement house museums in Glasgow and New York).

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concorde Experience written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gem of a gift book focuses on the first in the British Airways fleet to fly commerically, and is told through quotes from staff and passengers.

Author : Gordon Riley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780900913105
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aircraft Museums Directory written by Gordon Riley and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Freeman
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 9781857801194
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Air Museum Duxford written by Roger Freeman and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Air Museum in Great Britain was opened by Her Majesty the Queen at the Imperial War Museum's Duxford site on August 1, 1997. The exhibit offers an overview of US air power and its connections with the United Kingdom, most notably during WWII, and afterwards, including the Cold War presence. The narrative concentrates on the 24 U.S. aircraft in the collection. The museum acknowledges the emergency and dominance of America's air power during the 20th Century with a memorial to the 30,000 U.S. airmen who lost their lives during WWII in active service in the United Kingdom.

Author : Ken Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857800784
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aviation Museums of Britain written by Ken Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling book, now fully revised in a new edition, provides an easy-to-read review of exhibits, features and themes. It also answers the questions need before setting out to visit the museum.

Author : Robin Higham
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585442416
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Years of Air Power and Aviation written by Robin Higham and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this precise, interpretive and informative volume, Higham looks at everything from the roots of strategic bombing and tactical air power to the lessons learned and unlearned during the invasion of Ethiopia, the war in China and the Spanish Civil War. He also considers the problems posed by jet aircraft in Korea and the use of Patriot missiles in the Persian Gulf. He covers anti-guerrilla operations, doctrine, industrial activities and equipment, as well as the development of commercial airlines.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1326 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States Air Force Department
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States Air Force Museum written by United States Air Force Department and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1566 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."