Ocean bridge : the history of RAF Ferry Command / / Carl A. Christie ; with Fred Hatch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456116903321
• Autore: Christie Carl A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1995; ©1995
• ISBN: 1-281-99557-6; 9786611995577; 1-4426-7798-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (527 p.)
• Collana: Heritage
• Disciplina: 940.544941
• Soggetti: World War - 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, British; World War - Canada; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Atlantic Pioneers -- 2. Canadian Pacific Railway -- 3. From Triumph to Tragedy -- 4. From ATFERO to Ferry Command -- 5. Flying Boats through Bermuda -- 6. The Northern Routes -- 7. The Southern Routes -- 8. One-Trippers -- 9. No. 45 Group -- 10. Mosquito Deliveries -- 11. No Piece of Cake -- 12. Lasting Legacy -- Appendix A. Aircraft Delivered: CPR Air Services Department, ATFERO, Ferry Command, and No. 45 Group -- APPENDIX B. Losses: CPR Air Services Department, ATFERO, Ferry Command, and No. 45 Group -- APPENDIX C. RAF Transport Command and No. 45 Group at Peak Strength, Summer 1945 -- Notes -- Note on Sources -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: At the beginning of the Second World War there was no thought of delivering planes by air across the Atlantic. It was assumed to be too costly and too dangerous, especially in winter. Despite this initial reluctance, between the fall of 1940 and the spring of 1945, Royal Air Force Ferry Command's mixed civilian and military crews flew almost ten thousand aircraft, mainly American-built, to operational squadrons ; overseas. In Ocean Bridge Carl Christie provides the first full account of the genesis, history, and importance of Ferry Command.From the pioneer transatlantic flights of the interwar period and the early attempts to initiate regular commercial service, Christie traces London's decision to have aircraft, supplies, and passengers delivered across the Atlantic Ocean from Canada and the United States. Under the inspired leadership of a handful of Imperial Airways' captain-navigators, a group of civilian airmen from Britain, Canada, and the United States undertook to fly urgently needed bombers, maritime patrol aircraft, and transports to Europe for the RAF. This informal civilian organization was augmented by graduates of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada and taken over by the RAF as Ferry Command in 194 1. Some five hundred aircrew, as well as sixty passengers, lost their lives in accidents; Major Sir Frederick Banting, the discoverer of insulin, was killed in the first fatal crash of the ferry service.Ocean Bridge chronicles an often overlooked contribution to Allied victory and aviation history. By war's end the ferry service, through its various incarnations, had created the basis for the network of international air routes and procedures that commercial travellers now take for granted.

Archaeology in environment and technology : intersections and transformations / / edited by David Frankel, Jennifer M. Webb and Susan Lawrence

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910800035503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-134-62615-0; 0-203-50894-7; 1-134-62608-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Archeology ; ; 8
• Altri autori (Persone): FrankelDavid <1946->; LawrenceSusan <1966->; WebbJennifer M
• Disciplina: 930.1
• Soggetti: Environmental archaeology; Landscape archaeology; Human geography; Agriculture, Prehistoric; Tools, Prehistoric
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Complex Relations: Intersections in Time and Space; Part I Responses to Environments; 2 Perspectives on Global Comparative Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology: Glacial Southwest Tasmania and Southwest France; 3 Strategies for Investigating Human Responses to Changes in Landscape and Climate at Lake Mungo in the Willandra Lakes, Southeast Australia; 4 A New Ecological Framework for Understanding Human-Environment Interactions in Arid Australia; 5 Integrating Hunter-Gatherer Sites, Environments, Technology and Art in Western Victoria6 Pushing the Boundaries: Imperial Responses to Environmental Constraints in Early Islamic Afghanistan; Part II Technology and the Environment; 7 A Long-Term History of Horticultural Innovation and Introduction in the Highlands of Papua ; New Guinea; 8 Agricultural Economies and Pyrotechnologies in Bronze Age Jordan and Cyprus; 9 Changing Technological and Social Environments in the Second Half of the Third Millennium BC in Cyprus; 10 Landscape Learning in Colonial Australia: Technologies of Water Management on the Central Highlands Goldfields of VictoriaPart III Nature and Culture; 11 Exploring Human-Plant Entanglements: The Case of Australian Dioscorea Yams; 12 People and Their Environments: Do Cultural and Natural Values Intersect in the Cultural Landscapes on the World Heritage List?; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take environment, culture, and technology together. All have been the focus of much attention; often one or other has been seen as the starting point for analysis, but this volume argues that it is the study of the inter-relationships between these three factors that offers a way forward. The contributions to this book pick up different strands within the tangled web of intersections between environme