Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (533 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 178239107X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Great, sad story Douglas Criner This is a romantic history of the development and abbreviated operation of the Concorde supersonic airliner. The author includes enough technical details but also waxes poetic and philosophic about society's coarseness and banality that have sadly and coincidentally accompanied the demise of the Concorde and other inspiring human developments.. Great book. Lot of deep info. Very good information. Lot of very deep insights about the history of the marvelous plane, very advanced for its timeIf you want to know everything about Concorde, this is a great bookWhat a sad it doesn't fly anymore certainly it was the most beautiful plane in history, no doubt
It is a tale of national rivalries, technological leaps, daring prototypes, tightrope politics, and a dream of a Dan Dare future never quite realized. The result is a compelling mix of overt technological optimism, a belief that Britain and France were major players in the world of civil as well as military aviation, and faith in an ever faster, ever more sophisticated future. Jonathan Glancey traces the development of Concorde not just through existing material and archives, but through interviews with those who lived with the supersonic project from its inception. In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 through to the last commercial flight of the supersonic airliner in 2003. This is a celebration, as well as a thoroughly researched history, of a truly brilliant machine that became a sky god of its era.
A thoughtful hymn to a great symbol of the analogue age Concorde will be the standard long read on the subject for a good few years The Times What Jonathan Glancey likes about Concorde could probably fill several books His history of the Anglo-French supersonic airliner is nevertheless engaging, tracing the arc of Concorde's rise in the 1970s, an unlikely triumph of engineering and international co-operation, through to its decommissioning in 2003 This is an enthusiast's book, but a good one. Wallpaper . Pilot Glancey skilfully tells the tale of a plane forged from a great trans-national alliance, and how it eventually
He is also a steam locomotive enthusiast and pilot. . A frequent broadcaster, his books include Harrier, Giants of Steam, the bestselling Spitfire: The Biography, Nagaland: A Journey to India's Forgotten Frontier, Tornado: 21st Century Steam, The Story of Architecture, The Train: An Illustrated History. Jonathan Glancey is well known as the former architecture and design c