Fly by Wire
Subtitle: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: November 10, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780374157180
Subjects: History -- Americas -- United States -- 21st Century; History -- World -- Transportation -- Aviation; Nonfiction -- Current Events -- Disaster Relief; Nonfiction -- Transportation -- Aviation -- Piloting & Flight Instruction
Description: "In Fly by Wire, one of America's greatest journalists takes us on a strange and unexpected journey into the fascinating world of advanced aviation. 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, William Langewiesche assembles the untold stories necessary to truly understand the "miracle" on the Hudson, and makes us question our assumptions about human beings in modern aviation."--Publisher description.