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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The formative years were devoted to fixed-wing aircraft; however Westland has established itself as a helicopter company and now stands as a centre of rotorcraft activity within the UK. The West Country has always been at the heart of the quest to fly. In 1848 Stringfellow flew his steam-driven model at Chard and this event is generally accepted as the first flight by an aircraft operating under its own power. It is interest- ing to reflect upon the incredible rate of progress since that time. It took 50 years before the Wright Brothers were able to fly a mere 40 metres/120 feet. However thirty years later the DC-3 flew capable of taking 30 passengers between cities and little over thirty years after that Concorde was flying the Atlantic at super- sonic speeds. By the mid-1980s the Space Shuttle was taking man into space. Although the development of the helicopter does not invoke the same excitement as the supersonic adventure the creation of an aircraft that can take off and land on a given spot is a life saver in itself and involves all the high technology available. It fol- lows that the work going on within the factory compound and airfield at Yeovil today has advanced to a level comparable anywhere within the aerospace industry. If one looks into the origins of any significant settlement at Yeovil it becomes evi- dent that it was beginning to expand with the arrival of the Romans and the traffic. (LL)