Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the 'Miracle' on the Hudson [Audiobook] download free by William Langewiesche
- Listen audiobook: Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the 'Miracle' on the Hudson
- Author: William Langewiesche
- Release date: 2010/9/22
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780141046747
- Rating: 9.44 of 10
- Votes: 824
- Review by: Kaylani Browder
- Review rating: 8.87 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/26
- Duration: 2H38M15S in 256 kbps (41.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-14
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Shorten, WavPack, Vorbis, FLAC, WMA, MP3, MPEG4, WAV (compression XZ, CAB, ZIP, RAR, LHA, CBR, DMG)
- Total pages original book: 208
- Includes a PDF summary of 17 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 12M13S (3.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines. Over the next three minutes, the plane's pilot Chelsey 'Sully' Sullenberger, managed to glide to a safe landing in the Hudson River. It was an instant media sensation, the 'The Miracle on the Hudson', and Captain Sully was the hero. But, how much of the success of this dramatic landing can actually be credited to the genius of the pilot? To what extent is the 'Miracle on the Hudson' the result of extraordinary - but not widely known, and in some cases quite controversial - advances in aviation and computer technology over the last twenty years?From the testing laboratories where engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can systematically resist bird attacks, through the creation of the A320 in France, to the political and social forces that have sought to minimize the impact of the revolutionary fly-by-wire technology, William Langewiesche assembles the untold stories necessary to truly understand 'The Miracle on the Hudson', and makes us question our assumptions about human beings in modern aviation.
- Other categories, genre or collection: True Stories Of Heroism, Endurance & Survival, Impact Of Science & Technology On Society, Aircraft, History Of Engineering & Technology, History Of The Americas, Aerospace & Aviation Technology
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 11.26 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x12mm
- Weight: 157g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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