Concorde (eBook)

The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner

Jonathan Glancey (Autor)

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2015 | 1. Auflage
320 Seiten
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-78239-108-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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.

Autor

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 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 1x8pp b/w plates1x8pp colour plates
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Schlagworte: Aircraft • Antony Beevor • aviation • Concorde • Engineering • First World War • first world war books • Harrier • History • History books • Kevin Wilson • Max Hastings • military history • Patrick Bishop • RAF • Railways • Royal Navy • Second World War • Second world war books • Spitfire • Technology • war • war books • World History • world history books • World War 1 • world war 1 books • World War 2 • world war 2 books • World War I • world war i books • World War II • World War II books
• ISBN-10: 1-78239-108-8 / 1782391088
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78239-108-1 / 9781782391081