Scotlands Wings

Download or read book Scotland's Wings written by Robert Jeffrey and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland has a worldwide reputation for launching some of the greatest ships ever built, but far less is known about our pioneering work on aviation. Yet in the great industrial cities and remote islands across the country, men and women risked their reputations, resources and lives to advance experiments in flight. Before airliners crossed the Atlantic Ocean and bombers secretly flew into the NATO airbase at Machrihanish, pioneers of aviation worked in the unlikely surroundings of Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow among other places. Their humble flying crafts, made with wood and canvas, would become the luxurious jet-engined aircraft of today. Including the first flight over Everest, the construction of the most northerly airship station in mainland Britain and the experience of civilians and pilots during the Clydebank Blitz of 1941, Scotland's Wings is a glimpse into the dramatic and sometimes controversial adventures within Scottish aeronautics. In Scotland's Wings, Robert Jeffrey tells a fascinating history, highlighting innovators whose ideas heralded the modern age of transport and revealing how the airfields of previous years will once again be used to progress into a daring new age of travel.

Download or read book Island of Wings written by Karin Altenberg and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Orange Prize 2012. 1830. Neil and Lizzie MacKenzie, a newly married young couple, arrive at the remotest part of the British Isles: St Kilda. He is a minister determined to save the souls of the pagan inhabitants; his pregnant wife speaks no Gaelic and, when her husband is away, has only the waves and the cry of gulls for company. As both find themselves tested to the limit in this harsh new environment, Lizzie soon discovers that marriage is as treacherous a country as the land that surrounds her.

Download or read book Scotland written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Case for Left Wing Nationalism written by Stephen Maxwell and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning four politically and socially tumultuous decades, Stephen Maxwell's writings explore the origins and development of the modern Scottish Nationalist movement. As an instrumental member of the SNP and a life-long socialist, Maxwell's work provides an engaging contemporary insight into the debate over Scottish independence, setting out a clear ideological and practical arguments for a socially just Scotland. The Case for Left Wing Nationalism - Maxwell's seminal 1981 pamphlet - considers the historical and cultural roots of Scottish national identity and stresses the importance of a realistic understanding of the past as the basis of a more prosperous, independent future. It concludes with Hugh MacDiarmid's prescription for a Scottish renaissance: Not Traditions - Precedents.

Download or read book Bulletin - West of Scotland Agricultural College written by West of Scotland Agricultural College and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland written by Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transactions of the highland and agricultural society of scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: