By Jonathan Glancey
In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the tale of this tremendous and highly renowned plane 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 relatively realized.
Jonathan Glancey lines the advance of Concorde not only via current fabric and records, 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 quicker, ever extra refined future.
This is a party, in addition to a completely researched historical past, of a really really good computer that grew to become a sky god of its period.
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Did the island he to the east or to the west of the Centurum's present position? That was anybody s guess. Anson guessed west, and so headed in that direction. Four more desperate days at sea, however, stripped him of the courage of his conviction, and he turned the ship around. 23 The Illustrated Longitude The Sea Before Time Forty-eight hours after the Centurion began beating east along the thirty-fifth parallel, land was sighted! But it showed itself to be the impermeable, Spanish-ruled, mountain-walled coast of Chile.
A few years of such observations were enough to destroy anyone's eyesight. Yet the observations had to be made. And after all those early navigators lost at least half their vision finding the latitude, -who would wince at wounding a few wretched dogs in the 62 quest for longitude? Powder of Sympathy SirKenelm Digby (1605-65) u'as an Engluh diplomat, a devout Catholic, and a staunch royalut who escaped to France during the Engluh Cii'tl War. Despite his claims for the "Powder of Sympathy," which no doubt originated from his interest in astrology and alchemy, he became one of the original members of the Royal Society and u< said to have been the first to explain the necessity of oxygen to the life of plants.
But which way should he go? Did the island he to the east or to the west of the Centurum's present position? That was anybody s guess. Anson guessed west, and so headed in that direction. Four more desperate days at sea, however, stripped him of the courage of his conviction, and he turned the ship around. 23 The Illustrated Longitude The Sea Before Time Forty-eight hours after the Centurion began beating east along the thirty-fifth parallel, land was sighted! But it showed itself to be the impermeable, Spanish-ruled, mountain-walled coast of Chile.
