a good read
I don't think anyone's mentioned "The Water Jump" by David Beaty. (The history of transatlantic flight by someone who helped develop it.)
He also presents some interesting arguments supporting the concept of very senior managers (airline or not) being in possession of comfortable private incomes and more relevently, the historical reasons that many of the early post-war BOAC captains were such prats, plus many other interesting bits about the early days of all the atlantic airlines.
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