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Fly by Wire: The Truth about the Miracle on the Hudson (Hardcover)

By: William Langewiesche (Author)

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"[G]ripping....Mr. Langewiesche doesn't....dispute that the flight's pilot, Chesley B. Sullenberger III, a.k.a Sully, is, as he puts it, 'a brave and decent man' and a 'superb pilot.' But [he] does bang a few light dents into Sully's hero aura....No knock against Sully, he suggests, but almost any decent pilot could have done it....The book is also filled with hair-raising stories of other flights in peril, the kind of thing Mr. Langewiesche writes about as well as anyone alive."

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?LANGEWIESCHE BRINGS KNOWLEDGE AND PASSION AS WELL AS CAREFUL ELOQUENCE TO HIS SUBJECT.? ?JAMES R. GAINES, "THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"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 ?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 skill 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 past twenty years? In "Fly by Wire," one of America's greatest journalists takes us on a strange and unexpected journey into the fascinating world of advanced aviation. 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.

The author of The Atomic Bazaar argues that the miraculous safe crash landing on the Hudson River should not only be credited to pilot Chelsey "Sully" Sullenberger, but also the advances in aviation and computer technology that have taken place over the past 20 years, in a book that explores the technology designed to keep people safe.

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World-class reporter William Langewiesche tells the harrowing story of pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the hero of a celebrated January 2009 air disaster. His US Airways plane took off from LaGuardia and immediately met up with a flock of Canada geese. The encounter destroyed both the plane's engines, but Sullenberger managed to land it safely in the Hudson River. Langewiesche explores this amazing and heroic feat, looking not only at Sullenberger's quick-witted performance but at the advances in aviation technology that made the rescue possible.

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