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    Heathrow Airport : yesterday, today and tomorrow / Alan Gallop.

    • Title:Heathrow Airport : yesterday, today and tomorrow / Alan Gallop.
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    • Author/Creator:Gallop, Alan, author.
    • Published/Created:Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England ; Havertown, PA, USA : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2019.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Heathrow Airport (London, England)
    • Description:ix, 257 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
    • Summary:Love it or loathe it, Heathrow is the United Kingdom's largest and most important airport by a distance. It currently serves over 190 routes to more than 80 countries. Over £100 billion of imports and exports are handled every year, making it the UK's primary port by value. This fascinating book traces the often controversial development of the airport over the last 70 years from the most humble of beginnings. Thanks to the author's in-depth knowledge the arguments for and against the building of a third runway are thoroughly and objectively described. There have been, and indeed still are, those who advocate building a brand new hub airport for London but it is a fact that Heathrow has long been the cornerstone of the local economy, providing jobs for over 70,000 staff. This entertaining, controversial and superbly illustrated book is about much more than the bitter third runway battle.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:1526759187 hardcover
      9781526759184 hardcover
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Heathrow Fly Past
      1918-1933: How it all Began
      ch. 2 3000 bc-1919: An Historic Fly-Past
      ch. 3 1946-49: Professor Abercrombie's Vision
      ch. 4 1919-44: The Fairey Flying Machines
      ch. 5 1945-46: Wimpey's Wonderful Workforce
      ch. 6 1 January 1946: Heathrow Takes Off
      ch. 7 1945
      46: Enter the Pathfinders
      ch. 8 1946: Tented Terminals and `Piddle Pennies'
      ch. 9 1947-49: Taking Part in Something Worthwhile
      ch. 10 1950s: Silver Wings to Paris and Flying on the `Never-Never'
      ch. 11 New Elizabethan Age and the Russians are Coming
      ch. 12 Show that Must Go On
      ch. 13 Swinging Sixties and Plane-Spotting on the Queen's Building
      ch. 14 Britain's New Front Door and BOAC in Debt
      ch. 15 Sad Tale of British Eagle
      ch. 16 Heathrow Scoop!
      ch. 17 Supersonic Seventies: Jumbo Jets, Concordes, Terrorists and Time to Call in the Army
      ch. 18 1980s: `We lived at the right time'
      ch. 19 1990s: Dirty Tricks, the IRA and the Longest Public Inquiry
      ch. 20 2000 and Beyond: Heathrow and the Third Runway
      ch. 21 Alternative Airports and (possibly) the End of Heathrow!
      ch. 22 Airports Commission and the Third Runway
      ch. 23 Where Shall We Put the New Runway?.
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