CHARLES WOODLEY is a lifelong aviation enthusiast. He is the author of several books on historical aviation, including the successful Heathrow: The First 50 Years and BOAC: A History (both The History Press). A long-time member of Air-Britain, he founded the Grampian Airtouring Society and ran it for over ten years. He lives in Aberdeenshire.
8 Ebooks par Charles Woodley
Charles Woodley: Gatwick Airport
The Gatwick story really began when two young men purchased a plot of land near Gatwick Racecourse to develop as a flying field. From these humble beginnings in the 1930s, it has become Britain’s sec …
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Charles Woodley: Flying to the Sun
The end of the Second World War not only brought peace to a war-weary population but also delivered a plethora of surplus transport aircraft, crew and engineers, which could be easily and cheaply rep …
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Charles Woodley: Flying Boats
Flying Boats: Air Travel in the Golden Age sets out to do justice to a time of glamorous, unhurried air travel, unrecognisable to most of today’s air travellers, but sorely missed by some. During the …
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Charles Woodley: Stansted Airport Through Time
London Stansted Airport began life as a Second World War US air base. Handed back to the British government at the end of the war, the base soon became home to many of Britain’s fledgling charter air …
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€15.47
Charles Woodley: History of British European Airways, 1946-1972
BEA was formed in 1946 and took over most UK domestic and European routes under the British government’s nationalisation policy. It began operations with a fleet of outdated and hopelessly uneconomic …
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Charles Woodley: History of British European Airways, 1946-1972
BEA was formed in 1946 and took over most UK domestic and European routes under the British government’s nationalisation policy. It began operations with a fleet of outdated and hopelessly uneconomic …
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€6.35
Charles Woodley: Air Atlantique
In 1976 a Jersey-based air taxi operator purchased two elderly Dakota aircraft for cargo charters as Air Atlantique. Thus began the saga of an airline that would eventually operate one of the largest …
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€16.52
Charles Woodley: Swissair
For over seventy years the name Swissair stood for all things Swiss on the airways. The ‘flying arrow’ emblem of Switzerland’s national airline represented a company with deep financial reserves, ena …
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€16.56
