Trident: A History

Trident: A History

by Frank McKim
Trident: A History

Trident: A History

by Frank McKim

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Overview

This book presents a general history of the Trident aircraft charting its evolution, experience with airlines, and subsequent withdrawal. Trident was the world's first tri-jet and the first civilian aircraft certified to be able to land automatically in Cat B conditions. This illustrated history explains its beginnings, detail its layout and features, discuss new variants, the impact of BEA on Trident, and its role variously in connection with Kuwait Airways, Iraqi Airways, Pakistan, Air Ceylon, BKS Air Transport, Channel Airways, Cyprus Airways, China, and Zaire. The appendices include a production list and specifications. Notoriously, in 1972, 118 people were killed when a BEA Trident airliner ploughed into waste ground on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport. The book is written with the assistance of Neil Lomax of the Trident Preservation Society in Manchester and includes pictures of their recent Trident restoration project.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780752444024
Publisher: The History Press
Publication date: 05/01/2008
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword 6

Introduction and Acknowledgements 8

Chapter 1 The Start of the Story 10

Chapter 2 The General Layout of the Trident 25

Chapter 3 The T-tail and Deep-stall 35

Chapter 4 Automatic Landing 43

Chapter 5 British European Airways/British Airways 55

Chapter 6 New Variants of the Trident 73

Chapter 7 Kuwait Airways 87

Chapter 8 Iraqi Airways 89

Chapter 9 Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) 91

Chapter 10 Air Ceylon 95

Chapter 11 BKS Air Transport 99

Chapter 12 Channel Airways 103

Chapter 13 Cyprus Airways 107

Chapter 14 Tridents in China 111

Chapter 15 Air Charter Services (ACS) of Zaire 117

Chapter 16 More Variants of the Trident 119

Chapter 17 The Phasing-out of Tridents 125

Chapter 18 The Flight that Never Was 129

Chapter 19 The Last Journey of a Trident 133

In Retrospect Trident Retro 139

Production Lists 145

Bibliography 159

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