Description

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Gatwick’s very first jetliner touched down on 16 November 1958, and over the next fifty years the airport grew to become Britain’s second busiest airport, as well as the busiest single-runway airport in the world.

Classic Gatwick Jetliners is the much-awaited follow-up to Classic Gatwick Propliners, with over 200 colour images alongside comprehensive captions that describe the early jetliner visits through to the bustling years of the late 1980s. Featuring such iconic liners as the de Havilland Comet, the Boeing 707 and the 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’, this is an enthusiastic and fond tribute to the most colourful period of Gatwick’s aviation history.

About the Author

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Tom Singfield started work as an Air Traffic Control Assistant at Heathrow Airport in 1969. He stayed until 1978 when he trained as an Air Traffic Control Officer. A devotee of aicraft ‘spotting’ at Gatwick, he went on to work there as an ATCO until 1992 when the Approach Radar service moved to West Drayton. He retired after 37 years in 2005. An aviation writer and photographer with a collection of over 50,000 slides, he has written Classic Gatwick Propliners for The History Press and lives in West Sussex.