Flying Concorde
Calvert, Brian
Author was a "pioneer Concorde airline pilot"
Concorde is the most magnificent flying machine ever built. No other aircraft can match its ability to sustain supersonic flight for over three hours without refuelling. No other aircraft has achieved such a perfect marriage of beautiful and functional design. No other aircraft has so symbolized two nations' hopes, nor so engaged people's passions.
Captain Brian Calvert is uniquely qualified to tell the full story of Concorde's brilliant successes - and of its frustrations: he made a major contribution to its complicated technical development, he has been flying it since the early trials - piloting several of its dramatic inaugural flights - and he took part in the fraught battle for Concorde's acceptance as an airliner.
His copiously illustrated, first-hand account will fascinate everyone from the sophisticated passenger to the schoolboy enthusiast.
Softcover
253 Seiten / pages
many photos
good condition
1981 - Fontana Paperbacks
Art.Nr. 25014
