Fly by Wire - The Remarkable Story of the Hudson River Plane Crash

Informationen zum Autor William Langewiesche is an author and journalist. He is currently intenraitonal correspondent for Vanity Fair, having made his name writing for Atlantic Monthly . His strong, evocative prose is used to devastating effect on a range of issues. Before embarking on a writing career he spent two decades as a professional pilot, having performed his first solo flight by the age of fourteen. He has been termed one of the leading writers of The New New Journalism, a group of writers who have secured a place at the centre of contemporary American literature, as Tom Wolfe and The New Journalism did in the sixties. Klappentext William Langewiesche is an author and journalist. He is currently intenraitonal correspondent for Vanity Fair, having made his name writing for Atlantic Monthly . His strong, evocative prose is used to devastating effect on a range of issues. Before embarking on a writing career he spent two decades as a professional pilot, having performed his first solo flight by the age of fourteen. He has been termed one of the leading writers of The New New Journalism, a group of writers who have secured a place at the centre of contemporary American literature, as Tom Wolfe and The New Journalism did in the sixties. Zusammenfassung From the testing laboratories where engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can 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 revolutionary fly-by-wire technology, this work lets us question our assumptions about human beings in modern aviation.

Product details

• Authors: William Langewiesche
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.02.2010
• EAN: 9780141046747
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104674-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Aircraft, space travel; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; New York, TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Aerospace & aviation technology, Aircraft and aviation, Aircraft: general interest, Aerospace and aviation technology