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Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson

Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson

Langewiesche, William

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringAviation

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 031265538X
ISBN13: 9780312655389
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Oct 26 2010
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

In Fly by Wire, one of America's greatest journalists takes us on a fascinating (The New York Times) and sometimes humorous journey into the rapidly changing aviation industry. Langewiesche concisely and artfully renders forty years of history in the field by examining the financial problems, the unions, and ultimately the recent advances in technology. And he finds that aviation safety is field in which machine has now surpassed man, but man still manages to find ways -- hubris, ineptitude -- to cause accidents. Advances such as fly by wire suggest that in some cases it may prove best to cede authority to the machines, even if it means questioning our assumptions about human beings and heroism in the process.

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