The Mighty 747
Australia's Queen of the Skies
$35.29
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2022
Summary
‘We have decided we must have the 747.’ - Bert Ritchie, Qantas Chief Executive, 1967
From its first Qantas flight in 1971, the Boeing 747 flew millions of people to Australia, overseas for work, back to their homelands, on holiday and out of danger. For most Australians, the 747 was their first experience of international travel. And now, history’s most iconic commercial aircraft is scheduled to be decommissioned around the world.
In this jet-set nostalgia journey, Jim Eames -…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760877118 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760877115 |
| Author: | Jim Eames |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Imprint: | Allen & Unwin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 154mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
Jim Eames
Jim Eames has been involved with airlines since he began work as an aviation writer in the 1960s. He has been a ministerial press secretary and aviation adviser to governments and a senior executive with Qantas. He is the author of nine books including Taking to the Skies: Daredevils, heroes and hijackers, Australian flying stories from the Catalina to the Jumbo, The Flying Kangaroo: Great untold stories of Qantas … the heroic, the hilarious and the sometimes plain strange and Courage in the Skies: The untold story of Qantas, its brave men and women and their extraordinary role in World War II.
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