Jet Age The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World

Name: Jet Age The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
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ISBN: 9781583334362

ISBN-10: 158333436X

ISBN-13: 9781583334362

Edition: 2011

Authors: Sam Howe Verhovek

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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 Agevividly recreates the race between two…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/2/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.23" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface



The de Havilland Comet



The Boeing 707 Jet Stratoliner



Dreamers and Aviators



Empires in the Sky



Ambassadors to the Air



The Comet Mystery



The Race to Shrink the World


Epilogue


Sources and Ackiwwledgments


Index