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Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781583334027
- Book Title
- Jet Age : the Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
- Item Length
- 9.4in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Transportation, History
- Topic
- Aviation / General, United States / 20th Century, Modern / 20th Century, Aviation / History
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 17.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Product Information
The captivating story of the titans, engineers, and pilots who raced to design 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 triumphal and amazingly rapid-less than fifty years after the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, Great Britain led the world with the first commercial jet plane service. Yet the pioneering British Comet was cursed with a tragic, mysterious flaw, and an upstart Seattle company put a new competitor in the sky: the 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 two 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 fatal flaw; Bill Allen, Boeing's deceptively mild-mannered president; and Alvin "Tex" Johnston, Boeing's swashbuckling but supremely skilled test pilot. The extraordinary airplanes themselves emerge as characters in the drama. As the Comet and the Boeing 707 go head-to-head, flying twice as fast and high as the propeller 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 age and fascinating technology that permanently changed our conception of distance and time, of a triumph of engineering and design, and of a company that took a huge gamble and won.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1583334025
ISBN-13
9781583334027
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102828006
Product Key Features
Book Title
Jet Age : the Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Aviation / General, United States / 20th Century, Modern / 20th Century, Aviation / History
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Transportation, History
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tl515.V37 2010
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Reviews
"In this marvel of a tale, Sam Howe Verhovek reveals the most astounding miracle in modern life, and it's been hiding in plain sight. Forget computers and television, Facebook and Google. The Jet Age has shrunk our planet, brought us together, obliterated borders and changed virtually every aspect of life on earth. At its heart is the gripping story of two extraordinary, larger-than-life men whose race to unlock the secret of jet travel transformed our world." -William Broyles, Jr., former editor-in-chief, Texas Monthlyand Newsweek, screenwriter, Cast Awayand Apollo 13 "Jet Agetells a splendid, gripping tale, full of drama, mystery, fabulous characters, and the specific textures of an era when people dressed up to get on a plane, jets tore apart in midair, airlines hired 'stewardesses' to make passengers feel it was safe to fly, and fancy flights had ashtrays at every seat. It's at the top of my gift-list." -Jean Strouse, author of Morgan, American Financierand Alice James, A Biography "I have spent years interviewing astronauts and heard some hair-raising stories. But Tex Johnston, the swaggering Boeing test pilot I met in Sam Verhovek's Jet Age, pushes the Right Stuffmeter to the edge of the envelope. Tex alone is reason enough to read this terrific book." -Al Reinert, director of For All Mankind "Verhovek has accomplished the near-impossible in making modern airline travel the subject of a vivid detective story. Anyone who has ever stepped onto an airplane will be interested in this tale." -James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly, "In this marvel of a tale, Sam Howe Verhovek reveals the most astounding miracle in modern life, and it's been hiding in plain sight. Forget computers and television, Facebook and Google. The Jet Age has shrunk our planet, brought us together, obliterated borders and changed virtually every aspect of life on earth. At its heart is the gripping story of two extraordinary, larger-than-life men whose race to unlock the secret of jet travel transformed our world." -William Broyles, Jr., former editor-in-chief, Texas Monthly and Newsweek , screenwriter, Cast Away and Apollo 13 " Jet Age tells a splendid, gripping tale, full of drama, mystery, fabulous characters, and the specific textures of an era when people dressed up to get on a plane, jets tore apart in midair, airlines hired 'stewardesses' to make passengers feel it was safe to fly, and fancy flights had ashtrays at every seat. It's at the top of my gift-list." -Jean Strouse, author of Morgan, American Financier and Alice James, A Biography "I have spent years interviewing astronauts and heard some hair-raising stories. But Tex Johnston, the swaggering Boeing test pilot I met in Sam Verhovek's Jet Age , pushes the Right Stuff meter to the edge of the envelope. Tex alone is reason enough to read this terrific book." -Al Reinert, director of For All Mankind "Verhovek has accomplished the near-impossible in making modern airline travel the subject of a vivid detective story. Anyone who has ever stepped onto an airplane will be interested in this tale." -James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly, "Verhovek has accomplished the near-impossible in making modern airline travel the subject of a vivid detective story. Anyone who has ever stepped onto an airplane will be interested in this tale." -James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly
Copyright Date
2010
Lccn
2010-023848
Dewey Decimal
629.133/349
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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