Fly by wire
Subtitle: the geese, the glide, the Miracle on the Hudson
By: William Langewiesche
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus, and Giroux
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780374157180
Description: 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, the author assembles the stories necessary to truly understand the "Miracle" on the Hudson, and makes us question our assumptions about human beings in modern aviation.--from publisher description.
Table of contents: title: New York, January 15, 2009; title: Prologue : the inquest; title: Gear up : the takeoff, the birds, the collision, the glide; title: Fly by wire : the engineer, the problem, the paradox; title: Survival : the decision, the flare, the escape.