CLOSE TO THE SUN: HOW AIRBUS CHALLENGED AMERICA'S DOMINATION OF THE SKIES
Written by Stephen Aris
Published by Aurum Press
in 2002
ISBN: 1854108301
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- TRANSPORT
- AVIATION
- AIRCRAFT
- USA
- COMPANY HISTORY
CLOSE TO THE SUN: HOW AIRBUS CHALLENGED AMERICA'S DOMINATION OF THE SKIES
Written by Stephen Aris.
Stock no. 2134089
1st.
2002.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
The history or Airbus Industrie, the builders of the Airbus family of airliners, is a dramatic story involving high politics, billion-dollar gambles in high technology and a life-and-death struggle between the European planemakers and the giants of the American aerospace industry. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Colour photos. ISBN: 1854108301. Wrapper spine is slightly sunned.
Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The Kolk Machine
- 2. Power Games
- 3. Things Fall Apart
- 4. Airbus Meccano
- 5. Sleepless in Seattle
- 6. The Silk Road
- 7. The Camel's in the Tent
- 8. Flying by Wire
- 9. The Pyrenees Bear
- 10. The Airbusters
- 11. Thinking Big
- 12. We Will Bury You
- 13. End Game
- Conclusion
- Chronology
- Notes
- Index