Destination disaster  -  Paul Eddy

from the Tri-Motor to the DC-10, the risk of flying

KORTE INHOUD

*Destination Disaster* is a remarkable book of the politics in the (wide-body) commercial-aviation industry, and an accounting of the political warfare between McDonald Douglas and Lockheed Aircraft to gain acceptance of their designs during the early competition for wide-body commercial aircraft. One company, McDonald, pushed hard in Washington to prevent the technically more-advanced L1011 from being accepted in the commercial airline industry, only to see its candidate, the DC-10, later prove to be a saf...
1976 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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1976 Uitgever: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co. 434 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0812906195 ISBN-13: 9780812906196