Isbn: 9781583334027 - jet age: the comet, the 707, and the race to shrink the world (7 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. The Comet, the 707 and the race to shrink the world The captivating story of the titans, engineers, and pilots who raced to desi gn a safe and lucrative passenger jet. In Jet Age, journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of the first generation of jet airliners and the people who designed, built, and flew them. The path to jet travel was tr iumphal and amazingly rapid-less than fifty years after the Wright Brothers' fir st flight at Kitty Hawk, Great Britain led the world with the first commercial j et plane service. Yet the pioneering British Comet was cursed with a tragic, mys terious flaw, and an upstart Seattle company put a new competitor in the sky: th e Boeing 707 Jet Stratoliner. Jet Age vividly recreates the race between two nations, two global airlines, and two rival teams of brilliant engineers for bragging rights to the first jet service across the Atlantic Ocean in 1958. At the center of this story are great minds and courageous souls, including Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, who spearheaded the development of the Comet, even as tw o of his sons lost their lives flying earlier models of his aircraft; Sir Arnold Hall, the brilliant British aerodynamicist tasked with uncovering the Comet's f atal flaw; Bill Allen, Boeing's deceptively mild-mannered president; and Alvin Tex Johnston, Boeing's swashbuckling but supremely skilled test pilot. The extr aordinary airplanes themselves emerge as characters in the drama. As the Comet a nd the Boeing 707 go head-to-head, flying twice as fast and high as the propelle r planes that preceded them, the book captures the electrifying spirit of an era : the Jet Age. In the spirit of Stephen Ambrose's Nothing Like It in the World, Verhovek's Jet Age offers a gorgeous rendering of an exciting.…