Jet City Rewind - Aviation History of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest

From the dawn of human flight to today, Seattle has hosted flying history from dirigibles and fabric biplanes to jumbo jets, from epic pioneering flights to innovative companies making world travel routine. This book recaptures that historical awe and connects it with a sense of place. These subjects may span decades of existence or represent a single days events. Some are inspiring places of creativity and innovation, some are grim accident sites. All have some significance to the story of flight in the region. Do you know the exact spot of the first airplane flight in the area? How about where The Boeing Company began? Where did the top secret XB-29 prototype crash during its urgent WWII test program? Where did the first non-stop flight across the Pacific end? This book will answer those questions and many more as we dig into the aviation archeology of the Jet City and its surroundings.

About the author

Tim Nelson is an aerospace engineer living in the Seattle area. This book, his first, resulted from his fascination with the long, rich history of flight in this faraway corner of the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Nelson, Timothy A Nelson, Timothy A. Nelson, Timothy A. Nelson
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2016
• EAN: 9780764351068
• ISBN: 978-0-7643-5106-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 242 mm x 217 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 798 g
• Illustrations: 200 color and b/w photos
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Aircraft, space travel; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous