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America’s Round-Engine Airliners by Craig Kodera & William Pearce
Americas Round-Engine Airliners by Craig Kodera & William Pearce
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket (tear in front dust jacket)
216 pages
Copyright 2019
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments4
About the Authors6
Foreword by Jon Proctor7
Introduction8
Chapter 1 From Inline to Round11
Chapter 2 One Wing, Two Engines, All Metal50
Chapter 3 Presenting the Ship as an Airplane78
Chapter 4 Landplanes Become Viable Contenders95
Chapter 5 Expanding the Envelope117
Chapter 6 Some Serious Air Transports136
Chapter 7 Shrinking the Envelope168
Chapter 8 The Big Time176
Chapter 9 Twilight of the Goddesses201
Epilogue From Best of the Radials to the First Jets211
Bibliography213
Index215
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Going from the Ford Trimotor in 1929 to the Douglas DC-3 in only six years represented a giant leap in airframe and powerplant technology. Four-engine transoceanic flying boats carried passengers in the lap of luxury across the Pacific before World War II, bridging the gap to large four-engine post-War landplanes such as the Douglas DC-4 and Lockheed Constellation. By 1948, the luxurious Boeing Stratocruiser epitomized modern airline travel, powered by the largest radial piston engines ever produced. The final plateau was the Douglas DC-7 and Lockheed Super Constellation, the zenith of piston-powered airliners. The advancement and success of all these great aircraft can be linked directly to the concurrent growth of their revolutionary powerplants, and this book, written by a former airline pilot and a radial engine historian, tells this compelling story for the very first time.
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