The Mighty 747: Australia's Queen of the Skies by Jim Eames

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent.

From its first Qantas flight in 1971, the Boeing 747 flew millions of people to Australia, overseas for work, back to their homelands, on holiday and out of danger. For most Australians, the 747 was their first experience of international travel. And now, history's most iconic commercial aircraft is scheduled to be decommissioned worldwide.

In this jet-set nostalgia journey, Jim Eames tells us how the 747, a watershed in aviation technology, dramatically changed air travel and recounts the high points of its life at Qantas, including the uplift out of Darwin after Cyclone Tracy, the return of the Diggers to Gallipoli and the evacuation of Australians from Wuhan.

The Mighty 747 is the jumbo's Australian story woven with the humour and nostalgia of the people at Qantas who sold the 747 to Australia and made it work on the ground and in the air. (publisher blurb)