| Description |
Explores the advent of the first generation of jet airliners and the people who designed, built, and flew them. This title vividly re-creates the race between two nations, two global airlines, and two rival teams of brilliant engineers for bragging rights to the first jet service across the Atlantic Ocean in 1958.
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| Key Features |
| Author(s) | Sam Howe Verhovek |
| Publisher | Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S. |
| Date of Publication | 24/11/2011 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Format | Paperback |
| ISBN-10 | 158333436X |
| ISBN-13 | 9781583334362 |
| Genre | Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interest |
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| Publication Data |
| Place of Publication | Wayne |
| Country of Publication | United States |
| Imprint | Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S. |
| Content Note | illustrations |
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| Dimensions |
| Weight | 273 g |
| Width | 140 mm |
| Height | 210 mm |
| Spine | 18 mm |
| Pagination | 272 |
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| Description |
| Author Biography | Sam Howe Verhovek has been a reporter for The New York Times and Los Angeles Times for more than twenty-five years. His assignments have taken him around the globe, to riots in India, the war in Iraq, and the longest school bus ride in America. He lives in Seattle. |
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