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Fly By Wire - The Geese, The Glide, The 'Miracle' on the Hudson (Paperback)
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Fly By Wire - The Geese, The Glide, The 'Miracle' on the Hudson (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 480
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On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off
from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese
collided with it, destroying both of its engines. Over the next
three minutes, the plane's pilot Chelsey "Sully" Sullenberger,
managed to glide to a safe landing in the Hudson River. It was an
instant media sensation, the "The Miracle on the Hudson", and
Captain Sully was the hero. But, how much of the success of this
dramatic landing can actually be credited to the genius of the
pilot? To what extent is the "Miracle on the Hudson" the result of
extraordinary - but not widely known, and in some cases quite
controversial - advances in aviation and computer technology over
the last twenty years? From the testing laboratories where
engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can systematically
resist bird attacks, through the creation of the A320 in France, to
the political and social forces that have sought to minimize the
impact of the revolutionary fly-by-wire technology, William
Langewiesche assembles the untold stories necessary to truly
understand "The Miracle on the Hudson", and makes us question our
assumptions about human beings in modern aviation.
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