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Time Flies: Heathrow at 60
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Product Description
Heathrow is 60 on 1 January 2006. In 1946 a handful of airlines made only 9,000 flights to 18 destinations. In 2000 over 90 airlines served around 160 destinations world-wide, operating an average of 1,250 flights per day. This is the busiest airport in the world. Alan Gallop chronicles Heathrow's first 60 years, exploring how a small agricultural community on the outskirts of London became the site of the world's leading international airport. The story opens on 1 January 1946, Heathrow's first official day of operations when a converted Lancaster bomber operated by British South American Airways inaugurated the airport's first ever flight - a 35-hour journey to Buenos Aires. In tracing one of many first-hand accounts, Gallop has spoken to some of those who crewed that very first flight. Bringing together Heathrow's human and commercial histories, the book includes stories from all of the airport's six decades, told by the people who were there. Using previously unpublished interviews and illustrations, Time Flies is a sometimes critical but always balanced and entertaining look at the triumphs, tribulations - and controversies - that made Heathrow what it is today.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #350457 in Books
- Published on: 2005-11-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 224 pages
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About the Author
Alan Gallop worked at Heathrow as a reporter with a national news agency between 1966 and 1978, covering every conceivable type of story for the international media. He was one of the team that launched the airport newspaper, 'Skyport'. Since the early 1980's he has represented a number of Heathrow based airlines in a public relations capacity, as well as writing promotional books for international airports in Europe, Asia and the Middle-East. He has written three books for Sutton: 'Buffalo Bill's British Wild West' (2001), 'Children of the Dark' (2002)'Mr Stanley I Presume' (2004).
Customer Reviews
Worth buying.
I am glad i bought the book, its a great book to have on the coffee table to flick through, full of interesting facts and some rare photos, although i feel the reproduction of some of the photos could have been better, some have marks on that could easily have been removed in this digital age.
I would still recommend it though, well done the author.
