Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (713 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 178239107X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is also a steam locomotive enthusiast and pilot. . Jonathan Glancey is well known as the former architecture and design correspondent of the Guardian and Independent newspapers. 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,
Douglas Criner said Great, sad story. This is a romantic history of the development and abbreviated operation of the Concorde supersonic airliner. The author includes enough technical details but also waxes poetic and philosophic about society's coarseness and banality that have sadly and coincidentally ac. Great book. Lot of deep info. Carlos A Elenes Very good information. Lot of very deep insights about the history of the marvelous plane, very advanced for its timeIf you want to know everything about Concorde, this is a great bookWhat a sad it doesn't fly anymore certainly it was the most beautiful plane in histor
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. This is a celebration, as well as a thoroughly researched history, of a truly brilliant machine that became a sky god of its era.. It is a tale of national rivalries, technological leaps, daring prototypes, tightrope politics, and a dream of a Dan Dare future never quite realized. 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. 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
Financial Times Jonathan Glancey is eminently qualified to write a history of Concorde He fully appreciates the aesthetics and science of aeronautical engineering, and the lucidity of his prose makes his complex subject clearly comprehensible Spectator How welcome it is to see a specialist book from someone who can write What might appear to be yet another book on this widely exposed aircraft is actually one very much worth reading. Pilot Glancey skilfully tells the tale of a plane forged from a great trans-national alliance, and how it eventually fell from sky, taking with it - perhaps temporarily - the dream of a world shrunk small by the sheer force of technology. A thoughtful hymn to a great symbol of the analogue a