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Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
Sam Howe Verhovek
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| #265080 in Books | Avery Trade | 2011-08-02 | 2011-08-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.74 x5.48l,.59 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | ||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A Rambling But Entertaining Book|By William Holmes|"Jet Age" is all the more enjoyable for being a book about many things besides jets. The central narrative about the competition between Britain and America is clear from the subtitle, "The Comet, the 707 and The Race to Shrink the World." The British were the first to test a commercial jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, in||"Breezy and fact-filled history...Mr. Verhovek spins a fine yarn that includes big money, war, sex and power." — The Wall Street Journal||"Jet Age is a page-turning detective story with characters as finely drawn as those in a work
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 comme...
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