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Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet - Couverture souple

Toomey, David

 
9780393324488: Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet
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ISBN 10 : 0393324486 ISBN 13 : 9780393324488
Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2003

Synopsis

In September 1955, Navy Lieutenant Commander Grover B. Windham and a crew of eight flew out of Guantanamo Bay into the eye of Hurricane Janet swirling in the Caribbean: a routine weather reconnaissance mission from which they never returned. In the wake of World War II, the Air Force and the Navy had discovered a new civilian arena where daring pilots could test their courage and skill. These Hurricane Hunters flew into raging storms to gauge their strength and predict their paths. Without computer, global positioning, or satellite support, they relied on rudimentary radar systems to locate the hurricane's eye and estimated the drift of their aircraft by looking at windblown waves below. Drawing from Navy documents and interviews with members of the squadron and relatives of the crew, Stormchasers reconstructs the ill-fated mission of Windham's crew from preflight checks to the chilling moment of their final transmission.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Toomey is a professor of English and director of the Professional Writing and Technical Communication Program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He lives in Amherst.

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Éditeur
WW Norton & Co
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393324486
ISBN 13 
9780393324488
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
324
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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