747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet And Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation - Rilegato

Sutter, Joseph F.; Spenser, Jay P.

 
9780060882419: 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet And Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation
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ISBN 10: 0060882417 ISBN 13: 9780060882419
Casa editrice: Smithsonian Books, 2006

Sinossi

The aeronautical engineer who spearheaded the design and construction of the 747 offers an insider's perspective of the development of the world's largest and fastest jet aircraft during the 1960s golden age of American aviation and technology.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Joe Sutter led the team of engineers that created the Boeing 747. He served on the Presidential Commission to investigate the Challenger explosion with Neil Armstrong, Sally Ride, and Richard Feynman. Now in his eighties, he still serves as a consultant to Boeing. He lives in Seattle.



Jay Spenser has spent a lifetime studying aviation as a museum curator at the National Air and Space Museum and the Museum of Flight, and as an aerospace industry writer. He is the co-author of 747 and lives in Seattle, Washington.

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Editore
Smithsonian Books
Data di pubblicazione
2006
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0060882417
ISBN 13 
9780060882419
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
272
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780060882426: 747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0060882425 ISBN 13:  9780060882426
Casa editrice: Harper Perennial, 2007
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