Airplane How Ideas Gave Us Wings

Name: Airplane How Ideas Gave Us Wings
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ISBN: 9780061259203

ISBN-10: 0061259209

ISBN-13: 9780061259203

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Authors: Jay Spenser

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Book details

List price: $17.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/24/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.22" wide x 8.07" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Jay Spenser has spent a lifetime studying aviation as a museum curator at the National Air and Space Museum and the Museum of Flight, and as an aerospace industry writer. He is the co-author of 747 and lives in Seattle, Washington.



Introduction



Conception: The Thinker and the Dreamer



Birth: Wilbur, Orville, and the World



Configuration: Shapes and Ideas



Fuselage: Of Drums and Dragonflies



Wings, Part I: From Box Kites to Bridges



Wings, Part II: Cloud-Cutting Cantilevers



Empennage: Whale Flukes and Arrow Feathers



Flight Controls: The Chariot's Reins



Flight Deck: Cockpits for Aerial Ships



Aero Propulsion: Prometheus Is Pushing



Landing Gear: Shoes, Canoes, and Carriage Wheels



Passenger Cabin: Voyaging Aloft



Systems Integration: Making Flying Safer



Today's State Of The Art: The Boeing 787 Dreamliner


Postscript Tomorrow's Wings: Future Air Travel Technologies


Notes


Acknowledgments


Photo Credits


Index