Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner - Couverture souple

Glancey, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782391096 ISBN 13 : 9781782391098

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2016

Synopsis

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. It is a tale of national rivalries, technological leaps, daring prototypes, tightrope politics, and a dream of a Dan Dare future never quite realized.

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. 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.

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 propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jonathan Glancey is well known as the former architecture and design correspondent of the Guardian and Independent newspapers. He is also a steam locomotive enthusiast and pilot. A frequent broadcaster, his books include the bestselling Spitfire: The Biography; Nagaland: A Journey to India's Forgotten Frontier;Tornado: 21st Century Steam; The Story of Architecture and The Train: An Illustrated History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782391096
• ISBN 13: 9781782391098
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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