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Jet Age

Name: Jet Age
Brand: Penguin Books
SKU: 04437663
Price: 22.79 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Verhovek Sam Howe
ISBN: 9781583334362

Verhovek Sam Howe

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04437663

Publishers Penguin Books, November 2011

In "Jet Age", journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of the first generation of jet airlin... Full description

Libristo code: 04437663

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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 re-creates 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. 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.