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Schneider Trophy Seaplanes and Flying Boats: Victors, Vanquished and Visions
Ralph Pegram
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Hardcover. The Schneider Trophy race was very significant in advancing design, particularly in the fields of aerodynamics and engines, and would show its results in the best fighters of WW2. The streamlined shape and the low drag, liquid-cooled engine pioneered by Schneider Trophy designs are obvious in the Supermarine Spitfire and the P-51 Mustang. Num Pages: 352 pages, 200 black and white photographs, line drawings and plans. BIC Classification: WGM; WSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 232 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1520.
The Coupe d'Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider (commonly called the Schneider Trophy, or prize or cup) was a prize competition for seaplanes. Announced by Jacques Schneider, a financier, balloonist and aircraft enthusiast, in 1911, it offered a prize of roughly GBP1,000. The race was held eleven times between 1913 and 1931. It was meant to encourage technical advances in civil aviation but became a contest for pure speed with laps over a triangular course (initially 280 km, later 350 km). The races were very popular and some attracted crowds of over 200,000 spectators. Since 1977 the trophy has been on display ... Read more
The Coupe d'Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider (commonly called the Schneider Trophy, or prize or cup) was a prize competition for seaplanes. Announced by Jacques Schneider, a financier, balloonist and aircraft enthusiast, in 1911, it offered a prize of roughly GBP1,000. The race was held eleven times between 1913 and 1931. It was meant to encourage technical advances in civil aviation but became a contest for pure speed with laps over a triangular course (initially 280 km, later 350 km). The races were very popular and some attracted crowds of over 200,000 spectators. Since 1977 the trophy has been on display ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781551790
SKU
V9781781551790
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99-5
About Ralph Pegram
RALPH PEGRAM recently retired after 35 years working around the world in the oil exploration business for a major oil company. A geology graduate whose early plans to study aeronautical engineering were thwarted by failing to make the grade in mathematics. However, the author maintained a strong interest in aviation history with a particular slant towards the Schneider Trophy contests ... Read more
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