Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World [Audiobook] download free by Sam Howe Verhovek
- Listen audiobook: Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
- Author: Sam Howe Verhovek
- Release date: 2011/10/4
- Publisher: AVERY PUBLISHING GROUP INC.,U.S.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9781583334362
- Rating: 9.68 of 10
- Votes: 116
- Review by: Adriana Moniz
- Review rating: 8.59 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/27
- Duration: 3H21M36S in 256 kbps (54.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-10
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WMA, WAV, MPEG4, WMA Lossless, MP3 (compression TAR.BZ2, ZIP, ARC, TGZ, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 272
- Includes a PDF summary of 22 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 15M54S (4.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Aircraft, History Of Engineering & Technology
- Download servers: Torrent Funk, Uploaded, BitShare, Google Drive, Hotfile, JustBeamit. Compressed in TAR.BZ2, ZIP, ARC, TGZ, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.03 USD
- Dimensions: 141x209x19mm
- Weight: 270g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Wayne, United States
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