Marking the 2014 bicentenary of Stephenson's first locomotive, this new biography looks in detail at the son of an illiterate colliery hand who used his first wages to educate himself at evening school and coming from nowhere, went on reshape the globe through steam railways. It is also the story of his son Robert, who went on to become a greater engineer than his father, designing railways, locomotives and ground breaking bridges across the world.
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Rocketplanes tells the story of the world's most powerful aircraft from their origins in the 1940s through to Virgin Galactic and its plans for carrying passengers to the edge of space.
Aircrew memoirs including a diary account jotted down the day after a night op. Words from Guy Gibson, the famous founder Commanding Officer of 617 squadron and Les Munro, the last surviving pilot of the Dams' raid Features also on the Battle of Britain...
In issue 8 of the Aviation Classics' series we focus on the story of the B 17 Flying Fortress', described by the pilot of the Memphis Belle' as a Stradivarius of an aircraft. To the crews of these bombers, the B 17 was the aircraft that would get them...
