Abstract This chapter recounts the history of commercial aircraft from the open cockpit WWI surplus aircraft delivering airmail to the wide-body aircraft that opened up air travel during the 1970s. The chapter introduces the vital system improvements that allowed air travelers to fly comfortably above weather and in pressurized comfort. It introduced some of the systems that allowed commercial air travel to occur at Mach 0.85 or faster.
Commercial Aviation History
2019-07-24
14 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Piston engine , Jet engine , De Haviland Comet , Clipper airplanes , Douglas DC-3 , Concorde SST , Boeing Stratoliner , Aviation history , Boeing 247 , Boeing 747 , Wide-body aircraft Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation , Aerospace Technology and Astronautics , Engineering , Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering
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