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Can I read Jet pioneers : Gloucestershire and the birth of the jet age on EtoBox?
Jet pioneers : Gloucestershire and the birth of the jet age by Tim Kershaw is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Jet pioneers : Gloucestershire and the birth of the jet age about?
In April 1941 Britain's first jet left the ground at a grass airfield 4 miles from Gloucester Cathedral. It was the start of a revolution in air travel, military and civilian. During the 1940s Britain's first-ever jet aircraft, the world's first jet fighter in squadron service and the first jet to hold the world air-speed record were all designed, built and flown in the Gloucester and Cheltenham area. The story of Frank Whittle's invention and dogged development of the jet engine is well known.
Who reads Jet pioneers : Gloucestershire and the birth of the jet age?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Tim Kershaw
- Publisher
- Sutton Publishing Ltd
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780750932127
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Engineering, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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