The Saga Of The Tin Goose

Author : DAVID A. WEISS
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466969016
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saga of the Tin Goose written by DAVID A. WEISS and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the brainchild of Henry Ford and inventor William Bushnell Stout. It was the Ford Tri Motor, affectionately called the Tin Goose, the first all-metal passenger plane built in the United States. Only one hundred ninety-nine were ever manufactured, but they launched regular scheduled flights in America, introducing almost everything we have in air travel todayfrom stewardesses to concrete runways in airports. All major airlines started with this plane. Byrd flew to the South Pole in one. FDR dreamed up the New Deal flying in another to the Chicago convention where he was nominated for president. In a Ford Tri-Motor, Lindbergh inaugurated the first transcontinental air service. And when speedier Boeings and Douglases pushed the Ford Tri-Motor off the major air routes, the Tin Goose kept flying commercially for another fifty years, barnstorming from city to city giving hundreds of thousands of Americans their first plane ride, dusting crops and fire-fighting in the Midwest, and hauling freight and passengers into remote Central American jungles and over the Andes. This revised and updated edition of The Saga of the Tin Goose relates the story of this remarkable plane from its 1920s beginnings to the present, and tells where you can see and fl y Ford Tri-Motors today. This is not only the story of Mr. Fords venerable Trimotor, it is a highly readable and complete history of commercial aviation and scheduled airlines -AVIATION Airplane buffs will find plenty of detail on the design and performance of the Trimotor and other famous planes This tightly organized, factual presentation, enhanced by old photographs, conveys a sense of the precariousness of early aviation -THE KIRKUS REVIEWS David Ansel Weiss has written lovingly and with a professional storyteller skill of the almost-legendary plane that changed fl edgling aviations fl y-by-night operations into the giant airline industry of today. -ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT

Author : David Ansel Weiss
Publisher : Cumberland Enterprises, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saga of the Tin Goose written by David Ansel Weiss and published by Cumberland Enterprises, Incorporated. This book was released on 1971 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the Ford Trimotor plane that changed American Aviation from small fly-by-night operations to the giant airline industry of today. In the Ford Trimotor, Charles Lindbergh inaugurated America's first transcontinental passenger service.

Author : Robert F. Kirk
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481754831
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying the Lindbergh Line: Then and Now written by Robert F. Kirk and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying in the early 20th Century was dangerous business. Aircraft were made of sticks and cloth and engines failed at alarming rates. Those who flew risked both accidents and death. However, some saw this stumbling attempt to master the skies as an opportunity to bring the human race forward. They had a vision of stylish travel in the skies combining comfort, speed and profit. Such was the vision of Transcontinental Air Transport's Lindbergh Line that began the first scheduled coast-to-coast airline passenger service in 1929. Relive the adventure of that time and travel with the author as he flies what remains today of the "Lindbergh Line."

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1972-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry L Dominguez
Publisher : SAE International
ISBN 13 : 0768041872
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edsel written by Henry L Dominguez and published by SAE International. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carefully crafted from thousands of Ford archives, written interviews, and first-hand accounts told by people who knew the man, Edsel: The Story of Henry Ford's Forgotten Son, brings into focus the remarkable life of Edsel Ford. The book chronicle's Edsel's life from his early days of growing up in and around his father's company, through the controversy of his World War I draft notice and eventual exemption, the design change from the Model T to the Model A, and the creation of the Ford Foundation. 27 chapters in all help to shed light on the life of a man who preferred to spend most of his life out of the limelight.

Author : Thomas Filburn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030201112
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commercial Aviation in the Jet Era and the Systems that Make it Possible written by Thomas Filburn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the multiple systems that make commercial jet travel safe and convenient. The author starts by tracing the evolution of commercial jets from the Boeing 707 to the double decker Airbus A380. The next 7 chapters discuss flight controls, along with the high lift surfaces (flaps and slats) that are essential to allow high speed, low drag aircraft to take-off and land. The other systems include Engines/Nacelles, Cabin Pressurization and Air Conditioning systems, Landing Gear and brakes, Fuel Systems, Instruments/Sensors, and finally Deicing systems for the wings, nacelles and external air speed sensors. Case studies describe a significant accident that arose from a failure in the various systems described. The final chapter summarizes the past 60 years of jet travel and describe how these systems have created a cheaper, safer mode of travel than any other.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FAA Aviation News written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1973 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger D. Launius
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146962558X
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book Reconsidering a Century of Flight written by Roger D. Launius and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright soared into history during a twelve-second flight on a secluded North Carolina beach. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first flight, these essays chart the central role that aviation played in twentieth-century history and capture the spirit of innovation and adventure that has characterized the history of flight. The contributors, all leading aerospace historians, consider four broad themes relating to the development of flight technology: innovation and the technology of flight, civil aeronautics and government policy, aerial warfare, and aviation in the American imagination. Through their attention to the political, economic, military, and cultural history of flight, the authors establish that the Wrights' invention--and all that followed in both air and space--was one of the most significant technologies of the twentieth century, fundamentally reshaping our world. Supported by the First Flight Centennial Commission The contributors are Janet R. Daly Bednarek, Tami Davis Biddle, Roger E. Bilstein, Hans-Joachim Braun, David T. Courtwright, Anne Collins Goodyear, Roger D. Launius, William M. Leary, David D. Lee, W. David Lewis, John H. Morrow, Dominick A. Pisano, and A. Timothy Warnock.

Author : Robert Sobel
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781587980275
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Entrepreneurs written by Robert Sobel and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-researched, informative book in which Robert Sobel, the noted financial historian, explores the lives and careers of nine representative innovators in business during the last 200 years, men frequently overlooked by contemporary social and political historians: Francis Cabot Lowell, John Wanamaker, Cyrus McCormick, James Hill, James Duke, Theodore Vail, Marcus Loew, Donald Douglas, and Royal Little. Each one was selected to illustrate a different aspect of American business tradition. All share the ability to grasp opportunity and to oppose conventional wisdom when necessary, both of which contributed to the fabric of modern corporate life. In the aggregate they created new organizational traditions that were imitated throughout the Western world. Book jacket.