Heathrow
Subtitle: The Story of the World's Greatest International Airport
Contributors: Maps by Ken Smith
Publisher: Pan
Published: 1989
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
First sentence: Sometimes big airports get so busy that arriving aircraft have to wait before they can land.
Description: From country village to international airport. Life on the heath. How emergecy wartime powers were misused to get the airport built. How the airport grew. The people in charge. Crashes. Celebrities. How a plane lands. How a plane departs. Maps outline the airfield's expansion. Chronology and bibliography.
Table of contents: pagenum: 25
class: subsection
title: Arrival; pagenum: 160
class: part
title: Departure