Aviation Manufacturing Industry

Oh, the humanity! Radio reporter Herbert Morrison's words on witnessing the destruction of the Hindenburg are etched in our collective memory. Ye...

This book presents a little-known aspect of America's aircraft development of World War II in emphasizing unique and non-production aircraft or mod...

The story of the legendary supersonic passenger jet, told through a series of contemporary documents and records. First flown in 1969, Concorde wa...

Hawker Siddeley's history can be traced back to 1912 and the formation of the Sopwith Aviation Company by Tom Sopwith which metamorphosed into Hawk...

Was Keith Harriss Orville really named after the first-ever flyer? What exactly is a Spitfire? Why did Richard Branson try to cross the Atlantic in...

Scotland has a worldwide reputation for launching some of the greatest ships ever built, but far less is known about our pioneering work on aviatio...

Northern Ireland has an enviable, extensive and often unappreciated role in aviation history. With a focus on aircraft manufacturing from the first...

It has been 100 years since the first airfield was established in the country town of Yeovil. Since 1915, aircraft have been designed, manufactured...

Sand, Planes and Submarines is an unlikely title for a book about the role two small towns far from the sea played in the First World War. Yet this...

IN 1945 confidence in British aviation was sky-high. Yet decades later, the industry had not lived up to its potential. What happened? The years th...

The Dornier Do 17 was one of three Luftwaffes main bomber types early in the war. Designed as a passenger and mail plane, it ultimately proved true...

During World War II, aviation was among the largest industrial branches of the Third Reich. About 40 percent of total German war production, and...

It was in 1911, on a beach by the North Sea, that Robert Blackburn's Second Monoplane made its first successful flight. By 1914, the Blackburn Aero...

An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nations wartime need for...

LONGLISTED FOR THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022'A startling investigation of the corporate blunders behind the tragedies that claimed th...

Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917 and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their airship progra...