Guy Van Herbruggen, Charles Kennedy

Gebundenes Buch

Tiger 747

Beschreibung

Tiger 747 tells the story of the Boeing 747 in service with the Flying Tiger Line, Seaboard World and Federal Express, with an individual history of the thirty-four jumbos operated, and two in-depth historical essays, charting the evolution of Tiger, Seaboard and Fedex, and of the Boeing 747.

Autor

Guy Van Herbruggen is an aviation archivist and researcher. Guy Van Herbruggen began a lifelong love of aviation when at the age of six he flew on a Sabena SE-210 Caravelle from Brussels to Tunis with his parents. Guy started flying gliders at the age of fourteen and earned his FAA Professional Pilot IFR Multiengine licence in 1991 followed by a flight engineer certificate with a Boeing 727 typerating. Today Guy is an engineering manager at Fedex Express. He resides in Ottignies, Belgium, with his wife France and their twin children, where he has restored Sabena s first Boeing 707 simulator, build by Curtiss-Wright in 1959. He is also an occasional contributor to Aviation News and Propliner magazines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Astral Horizon Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 221mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 1190g
• ISBN-13: 9780993260469
• ISBN-10: 0993260462
• Artikelnr.: 48372315