10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCHNEIDER TROPHY»
Discover the use of
Schneider Trophy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Schneider Trophy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The
Schneider Trophy Story
This book devotes an entire chapter to each of the 12 races, with details of pre-race planning, navigation and seaworthiness trials, the race itself, and, of course, aircraft designs and engines.
2
The
Schneider Trophy Seaplanes and Flying Boats: Victors, ...
A classic and romanticized aviation race of a bygone era that went on to inspire the illustrious Spitfire: a definitive work of over 30 years in the making.
3
The Putnam Aeronautical Review
Schneider Trophy Update: a Light- Hearted Introduction to Handicap Air Racing
John Blake Except to those who take part, and clearly enjoy it immensely,
handicap air racing, a peculiarly British phenomenon, is something of a closed
book.
4
Schneider Trophy to Spitfire: The Design Career of R.J. Mitchell
This is the first book to give a comprehensive account of the entire design career of legendary aircraft designer Reginald J. Mitchell.
5
The Jet Race and the Second World War
The most famous air race series was the Schneider Trophy. Proposed in 1912 by
M. Jacques Schneider, a Frenchman, it was a speed competition for seaplanes.
33 The first Schneider Trophy was held at the Monaco Seaplane Meeting in April
...
Sterling Michael Pavelec,
2007
There was also the highly specialized series of racing monoplane seaplanes
built to compete for the Schneider Trophy between 1925 and 1931.Finally,
between 1936 and 1958 the company produced a succession of single-seat
landplane ...
7
The Pulitzer Air Races: American Aviation and Speed ...
Just as all racers are not created equal, neither are all races, and the Schneider
Trophy Races for seaplanes are much more the subject of popular histories than
are the Pulitzers. A Google search for “Schneider Trophy” in March 2011 yielded
...
8
Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age
the great floatplanes designed to win the Schneider Trophy, to a speed of over
440 mph. That record, at least 100 mph faster than the best land plane of the day,
would stand for over four years, until an early model of a new generation of ...
9
Another Life: Lawrence After Arabia
Barker, Ralph, The Schneider Trophy Races, Airlife Publishing Ltd., 1981. James,
Derek N., Schneider Trophy Aircraft 1913–1932. Putnam, 1981. RAF Museum,
Hendon: Air Commodore SydneySmith Archive; R.J. Mitchell Archive. Solent Sky
...
10
Air Racing:
Schneider Trophy, Macrobertson Air Race, C. W. ...
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2010
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCHNEIDER TROPHY»
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Schneider Trophy is used in the context of the following news items.
How Calshot played vital role in both world wars
The British team for the Schneider Trophy race in 1929, which Flying Officer H.R.D. Waghorn won with a speed of 328.63 mph. In the picture (from the left) were ... «Daily Echo, Jul 15»
Pioneering aviator Howard Pixton remembered
The occasion also marks the centenary of Howard Pixton's winning the Schneider Trophy, which was considered an outstandingevent in the history of British ... «Isle of Man Today, Jul 14»
This Crazy Bullet Is The Most Beautiful Plane That Never Flew
The Piaggio P.7 was originally designed to compete in the 1929 Schneider Trophy race, which, like all Schneider Trophy races, pitted the world's fastest ... «Jalopnik, Feb 14»
Race cancelled due to airport 'politics'
Peter Earp, events and marketing co-ordinator for the Royal Aero Club, said the Schneider Trophy would not have been raced anyway due to Sunday's poor ... «Isle of Wight County Press, Sep 12»
Rolls Royce presents the Phantom Coupé Aviator Collection
Inspired by Charles Stewart Rolls and the legend of the Schneider Trophy-winning Supermarine S6B (powered by a Rolls-Royce R Type engine), Rolls-Royce ... «BMW BLOG, Aug 12»
Pilot's Merlin Trophy crash was accidental, says jury
... as the aircraft were on the final stretch of the Merlin Trophy race. The race was a precursor for the main annual Schneider Trophy, which was then cancelled. «BBC News, Nov 11»
Seaplanes in Schneider tribute
The Cessna seaplane that took part in yesterday's Schneider Trophy tribute flight. Picture by ... THE postponed Schneider Trophy tribute flight took off yesterday ... «Isle of Wight County Press, Sep 11»
Seaplanes retrace classic Schneider Trophy race route
From 1913 until 1931 teams from the US and Europe competed in a series of races for the Schneider Trophy. After the British team won their third successive ... «BBC News, Sep 11»
Return of the seaplane spirit
The Spitfire has its 75th anniversary this year but without the pioneering work that resulted from the Schneider Trophy competition, there would have not been ... «Isle of Wight County Press, Sep 11»
Schneider Trophy air races remembered in Southampton
Southampton's Solent Sky Museum has won a £50,000 Heritage Lottery Grant to develop an exhibition about the famous 1931 Schneider Trophy air races. «BBC News, Jul 11»