Scotland’s Wings:Triumph and Tragedy in the Skies

by: Robert Jeffrey (Author)

Publisher: Black & White Publishing

Publication Date: 15 Sept. 2022

Language: English

Print Length: 240 pages

ISBN-10: 1785304062

ISBN-13: 9781785304064

Book Description

Scotland has a worldwide reputation for launching some of the greatest ships ever built, but far less is known about our pioneering work on aviation. Yet in the great industrial cities and remote islands across the country, men and women risked their reputations, resources and lives to advance experiments in flight. Before airliners crossed the Atlantic Ocean and bombers secretly flew into the NATO airbase at Machrihanish, pioneers of aviation worked in the unlikely surroundings of Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow among other places. Their humble flying crafts, made with wood and canvas, would become the luxurious jet-engined aircraft of today. Including the first flight over Everest, the construction of the most northerly airship station in mainland Britain and the experience of civilians and pilots during the Clydebank Blitz of 1941, Scotland’s Wings is a glimpse into the dramatic and sometimes controversial adventures within Scottish aeronautics.In Scotland’s Wings, Robert Jeffrey tells a fascinating history, highlighting innovators whose ideas heralded the mode age of transport and revealing how the airfields of previous years will once again be used to progress into a daring new age of travel.
Book Description Whilst the Clyde is known as a hub of construction for sea-faring vessels and ships, Scotland is less often recognised for its relationship with the skies. From the country’s very earliest airfield to the first Scotsman in space, the often-overlooked record of homegrown aviation is explored in this fascinating account by Robert Jeffrey.
About the Author
Robert Jeffrey is a long-serving Glasgow joualist and the former managing editor of the Herald group of newspapers. His many best-sellers include Glasgow’s Hard Men, Blood on the Streets, Glasgow’s Godfather and Crimes Past.

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