The Bristol 170: Freighter Wayfarer & Superfreighter - King - Air Britain

Description: **PLEASE READ** I WILL PROVIDE A SHIPPING QUOTE IF YOU PURCHASE MULTIPLE ITEMS. PLEASE AWAIT MY COMBINED SHIPPING INVOICE FOR MULTIPLE ORDERS IF POSSIBLE. IF YOU ONLY BUY ONE ITEM YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND PAY. I HAVE DISABLED AUTOPAY FOR BUY IT NOW ITEMS, BUT ITEMS BOUGHT VIA BEST OFFER ARE USUALLY PAID FOR STRAIGHT AWAY WITH AUTOPAY REMEMBER - IT IS MORE ECONOMICAL TO BUY MULTIPLE PURCHASES AND PAY ONE POSTAGE COST. I WILL ALWAYS TRY AND WORK WITH YOU TO GET THE BEST POSTAGE RATE, AND I WILL REFUND ANY OVERPAYMENT WHERE I CAN. -------------------------------------------------- The Bristol 170: Freighter, Wayfarer & Superfreighter - Derek A. King - Air Britain SCARCE! Superb book in the popular Air Britain series - Covers construction and variants of the aircraft, including the history of each airframe together with its fate. Hundreds of photos and masses of information! Can fetch large sums from online bookseller websites. Here's the product description from the Air Britain website: Described by an early operator as ‘the tramp-ship of the skies’, the Bristol Freighter (as it was usually called) plied the airways for nearly 50 years, usually unremarked but with distinction.Its main claim to fame was that it enabled British holidaymakers to fly their cars to the Continent. But the Bristol Freighter didn’t just fly over the English Channel - it operated on every continent, in widely varying conditions and in several war zones. Derek King not only provides comprehensive detail of all variants, exhaustive operator histories and histories of all 216 Bristol Freighters, and 330 photographs (50 in colour), but also hilarious and hair-raising anecdotes from the people who flew this distinctive type. Michael been published before. 288 pages.Owning this book is the next best thing to having your own Bristol Freighter! Here's an Amazon customer review (2013) which gives the book 4 out of 5 stars: the words are NOT my own and are used for descriptive purposes only I've had a personal interest in the 'flying brick' as it was known in New Zealand for a long time, having flown on one as a lad, and I was glad to get my hands on what I hoped would be a good history of the plane. I'm pretty content with the purchase as the book is well bound, with a nice cover, well researched and a good size - I doubt you'll find more about the Bristol Freighter in another single volume. On the plus side, it is certainly a comprehensive book with a lot of facts and anecdotes you probably wouldn't find easily elsewhere, it has a per aircraft history, and some good pictures and historic adverts to round it out. The only things that make it fall short of a 5 star is it just misses something in the ordering and flow of the book. In addition a few of the colour pics were a bit low on quality and something I found a bit annoying was use of (unusual) abbreviations in the per aircraft history - really wasn't needed in a book of this size as it probably only saved 1 page of print and detracted from an otherwise excellent book. Overall conclusion is it is a good book, albeit with a few niggles, so if you're hunting for a good history of the Bristol Freighter this one is probably for you. -------------------------------------------------- SHIPPING:UK Items usually sent by Royal Mail, with tracking SHIPPING: OVERSEAS ITEMS WORTH LESS THAN €150 / £135 From 1 July 2021, the Brexit transition period ends. From this date forward, EVERYTHING sold to a country outside of the UK counts as an export, and as such could be subject to VAT/tax. EU member states require an IOSS (Import One Stop Shop) number, although this is optional. From 1 July, eBay should provide me with an IOSS number once you have completed checkout. 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Price: 75 GBP

Location: York

End Time: 2024-11-16T14:46:03.000Z

Shipping Cost: 31.63 GBP