Schneider Trophy Seaplanes and Flying Boats
victors, vanquished and visions
$95.21
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
23 October 2012
Summary
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). Th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781781551790 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1781551790 |
| Author: | Ralph Pegram |
| Publisher: | Fonthill Media Ltd |
| Imprint: | Fonthill Media Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 23 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 1.56kg |
| Dimensions: | 287mm x 233mm x 34mm |
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About The Author
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 and aircraft which he has been researching for over 30 years.
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