The Lonely Sky
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This is another motivational book, once again about aircraft, this time about research into supersonic flight when this was still a dangerous undertaking in the 1950s. The following quotation shows once again, as in the case of Clostermann’s book, that engineering has an emotional side. Here the pilot Bridgeman talks about the engineers who analyse the flight data that he brings back after every flight:
“The engineers and men in the Skyrocket programme viewed the plane with some kind of undefinable emotion: they not only took their work seriously – they lived it. Every murmur from the ship was cause…
From Edgar's list on inspiring a love for mechanical engineering.
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