By Jonathan Glancey
In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the tale of this excellent and highly well known airplane anew, taking the reader from the instant Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 via to the final advertisement flight of the supersonic airliner in 2003. it's a story of nationwide rivalries, technological leaps, bold prototypes, tightrope politics, and a dream of a Dan Dare destiny by no means really realized.
Jonathan Glancey lines the advance of Concorde not only via current fabric and documents, yet via interviews with those that lived with the supersonic undertaking from its inception. the result's a compelling mixture of overt technological optimism, a trust that Britain and France have been significant gamers on the earth of civil in addition to army aviation, and religion in an ever swifter, ever extra refined future.
This is a party, in addition to a completely researched background, of a very remarkable desktop that grew to become a sky god of its period.
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