I know you got soul: machines with that certain something (24 page)

flights, problems,
12
–13

flying height,
3
–4,
168

interior design,
2
–3,
4

loss,
13
–16

marketing,
11

as museum piece,
16

noise,
4
–5

Paris crash, ix,
12
,
13

range,
11

replacement, lack of,
14
–15

seen as tool,
2
,
4

speed,
10

tickets, cost,
12

wings,
10

Conqueror
, HMS,
185
–6

Convair, C-5 Galaxy plane,
129

convoys, wartime,
180
–81,
210

Cooke, Alistair,
82

Corsair
, Empire Flying Boat,
43
–5,
48

Corsairville
(Coster),
44

Coster, Graham,
44

Cribbins, Bernard,
118

Crimean War,
73

Crowe, Frank,
146

cruise liners,
67
–8

Cuba

missile crisis (1962),
125
–6,
175

planes,
152

Cunard Line,
65
,
66
,
67
,
68
,
70

Cuniberti, Vittorio,
204
,
205

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona,
126
–7

Dean, James,
106

Delta rockets,
81

delta wings,
10

Deltic diesel engines,
123

desert driving,
37
–9

Detroit, Chris-Craft company,
29
,
32

Diaz, Cameron,
123

Doncaster,
119
,
120
,
123

Dorsetshire
, HMS,
213

Dreadnought
, HMS,
205
–6,
207

driving

desert,
37
–9

off-road,
38

Dwight D. Eisenhower
, USS,
151
–2,
153
–61

Echo
satellite,
81

Eckener, Hugo,
115

Edwards Air Force Base, California,
173
,
194

Edward VII, King,
205

Elgar, Sir Edward,
25

Elizabeth II, Queen,
81

Empire Flying Boat,
48

Empire State Building, use as airship mooring,
113

engineering, British,
57
,
141

Enterprise
, USS (
Star Trek
),
35
–6,
41
,
42

F-14 fighter jet,
151
,
155
,
159
,
160

F-15 fighter jet,
34

F-16 fighter jet,
123

F-18 fighter jet,
151

Falkland Islands, SS
Great Britain
in,
55
,
73

Falklands War (1982),
185
–6

Faslane submarine base,
186

Ferrari, Enzo,
199
,
200

Ferrari cars,
19
,
199

Fiat company, and Alfa Romeo,
164
–5

First World War (1914–18),
107
–9

naval battles,
207
–9

submarines,
179

flying boats,
43
,
45
–8,
52
,
54

wartime service,
49
–51

Flying Scotsman
(film),
121

Flying Scotsman
train,
119
–23

Focke-Wulf 190 fighter,
223
,
231

Ford, Henry,
199
,
200

Ford company

centenary,
202

Consul GT car,
198

fast cars,
198
–200

Ferrari deal,
199

GT
40
car,
198
,
199
–203

XR3 car,
198

France

Concorde, joint development,
6
–7,
9

engineering, invention,
57

satellites,
78
,
80

France
, liner,
68

Fuji Heavy Industries,
18

Furious
, HMS,
217
–18

Gatwick Airport,
46

Gaulle, Charles de,
6

Germany

battleships,
206
,
208
–9,
210
–16

Second World War,
222
,
228
–31,
232

U-Boats,
179
–82

Zeppelin airships,
107
–9,
113
,
116

Gibson, Hoot,
187
–8,
190
,
191
,
193

glass-fibre boats,
32
,
33

Goering, Hermann,
116

Goonhilly satellite tracking station, Cornwall,
82
–5

Graf Zeppelin
airship,
114
–15,
116
–17

Granger, Stewart,
31

Grand Banks, North Atlantic,
56
,
60
,
63

Grand Canyon,
139
–40

Great Britain
, SS,
55
,
68
–75,
75

Great Depression (1930s),
144

Great Eastern
, SS,
73

Great Wall of China,
27

Great Western
, SS,
58
–9,
68

Great Western Railway,
58
,
120

Great Western steamship company,
72

Great Yarmouth, Zeppelin raid,
108

Greenland, B-52 crash (1968),
133

Gresley Pacific locomotives,
119
,
122

Grubbs, Captain Victor,
87
–91

Guevara, Ernesto Che,
105
–6

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao,
26

Hanoi, Vietnamese War Museum,
136

Harrison, Rex,
31

Hawker company,
225

Hay-Drummond-Hay, Lady Grace,
115
,
117

Heathrow Airport, London,
12
–13,
46

Heineken, Karl,
32

Heston, Sir Henniker,
55

Hindenburg
airship, explosion,
113

Hitler, Adolf,
49
,
113
,
231

Honda cars,
18
,
27

Hood
, HMS,
210
–12

Hoover, President Herbert Clark,
143

Hoover Dam

beauty,
149

construction,
143
–8

engine,
138

masonry,
138

water power,
148
,
149

Humber Bridge,
26

Hurricane fighters,
x
,
223
,
225

advantages,
232
–3

role,
229

Hussein, King of Jordan,
32

Imperial Airways,
47
–8

Imperial Valley (Colorado), irrigation,
141
–2

Indian Mutiny (1857-8),
73

Indonesia, unrest (1963),
232

Industrial Revolution,
57

Inman Line,
65

Intelsat 903
satellite,
83

intercontinental ballistic missiles,
131
,
183

International Space Station,
197

Iraq

B-52 bombers in,
136
–7

military radio traffic,
84

Republican Guard, arms,
101

Iseo, Lake,
27
,
33

Italy

aesthetics, passion for,
27

motor industry,
30

Jaguar cars,
19
,
20

Japan

battleships,
206
,
216
–20

cars,
18
,
24

kamikaze raids,
219

Spitfire order,
228

Johnson, Tex,
130

Jumbo aircraft.
See also
Boeing 747 first passenger flight (1970),
87
,
96

safety,
91

Junkers JU-88 fighters,
51

Jupiter, moons,
197

Jutland, battle of (1916),
208

Kalashnikov, Mikhail Timofeevich,
100
–101,
106

kamikaze raids,
219

Keegan, Kevin,
119

Kennedy, President John F.,
125

Kentucky, B-52 crash (1959),
132

Khrushchev, President Nikita,
125

Kidman, Nicole,
45

King George V
, HMS,
212
,
213

King’s Lynn, Zeppelin raid,
108

KLM air crash, Los Rodeos (1977),
86
–91

Laker, Freddie,
8

Lamborghini, Ferruccio,
32

Lamborghini Miura car,
26

Las Palmas airport, explosion (1977),
86

Las Vegas, development,
144
,
149

Le Mans Grand Prix,
199
,
200

Lightning fighters,
232

Lineback, Operation,
135

liners, transatlantic,
65
–7

Linley, David,
27

Lizard Point, satellite tracking station,
82

locomotives, individuality,
118
–19

London

Blitz,
230
–231

Zeppelin raids,
109

London & North-Eastern Railway (LNER),
119
,
120

Loren, Sophia,
32

Los Angeles Class submarines,
184
–5

Los Rodeos airport air crash (1977),
86
–91

Lotus cars,
19

Lucas, George,
35
,
40

Lusitania
disaster,
65

Lyons, Sir William,
19
,
20

McAuliffe, Christa,
195

machine guns,
100
,
104
–5

machines, flaws,
ix
,
x

Macmillan, Harold,
6

McQueen, Steve,
106

mail, air transport,
47

Mallard
train,
122

Mars, exploration,
197

Mauretania
, SS,
66
–8,
75

Mead, Lake,
148

Mercedes Maybach car,
20
,
22

Merlin engines,
225
,
227

Messerschmitt Me109 fighters,
228
–9

meteorology,
76
–7

Meurs, Klaus,
89

MiG fighters,
169

Miles Aircraft Corporation,
10

Millennium Falcon
(
Star Wars
),
35
,
36
–7,
40
–42

Mir Space Station,
196

Missouri
, USS,
221

Mitchell, Reginald,
223
,
224
,
226
,
231

Mitsubishi, battleships,
218

Mogadishu, arms,
101

Monsarrat, Nicholas,
179

Moon, exploration,
5
,
197

Moon, Keith,
188

Moore, Roger,
4

Morris, Johnny,
201
–2

Mustang
9
-51 plane,
223

NASA,
54
,
78
,
189
,
191
,
196

Nasser, President Abdul Gamal,
32

New York, World Trade Center disaster,
13

Nimitz Class aircraft carriers,
152

nuclear power,
156
,
157
,
221

size,
157

speed,
156
–7,
221

weight,
157
,
221

Nixon, President Richard,
135

and Space Shuttle program,
194
,
195
,
196

Normandie
, SS,
68

North Atlantic

convoys,
210

dangers,
55
–7,
59
–61

North Sea, naval battles,
208

North Vietnam, B-52s in,
133
–6

Nuffield, Lord,
227
–8

Olympus engines,
5

Oshkosh Air Show (1976),
41

Pacific
, SS,
60

Paddington Station, London,
58
,
70

paddle steamers,
58
–9,
69
,
70

Pan-Am air crash, Los Rodeos (1977),
87
–91

Paris

Concorde crash (2003), ix

Vietnam War peace talks,
135

Patton, General George,
222

Pearl Harbor
(film),
45
,
218

Pegler, Alan,
122

Pemberton-Billing, Noel,
224

Perfect Storm
,
The
(film),
56

Phoenix, Arizona, development,
149

pilots

salaries,
47

wartime shortage,
230

planespotting,
118

Poland, German invasion,
49

Porsche Cayenne car,
20

Portofino harbour,
32

Powers, Gary,
175

Pratt and Whitney jet engines,
129

President
, SS,
59