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Jet Age: The Comet, The 707, And The Race To Shrink The World (2010)

by Sam Howe Verhovek(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1583334025 (ISBN13: 9781583334027)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Avery

review 1: Today's view of flying on jets is one of crowds, TSA, delays, etc. In the 50s flying on jets was romantic, fascinating and a bit risky. Verhovek describes the birth of the commercial jet age recounting the misadventures of the de Haviland Comet and the eventual success of the Boeing Dash 80. If the creators of the jet age that their daring inventions would become airborne bus routes, maybe they would have closed up shop and invented something else.
review 2: This book manages to be repetitive without really saying anything. There are a few interesting anecdotes, but for the most part the author seems to have cribbed from other books without really adding anything of his own. The (rare) descriptions of anything scientific or technical are oversimplified to th... moree point of becoming meaningless. (The one that stood out most to me was the idea that all of flight can be explained by Newton's third law, with no mention of petty things like lift or a guy named Bernoulli.) It's not clear whether the author was trying to make things more accessible to a non-technical audience or if he just had a poor understanding of the material. This might be a good book for someone with no background in the history or science of flight, but it just didn't work for me. less

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