The Flying Book: Everything You've Ever Wondered about Flying on Airlines - Hardcover

Blatner, David

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9780713995138: The Flying Book: Everything You've Ever Wondered about Flying on Airlines

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713995130 ISBN 13: 9780713995138

Publisher: Allen Lane, 2003

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To fly is one perhaps humankind's oldest dream.

One of the most fascinating facts about flying is that while almost everybody does it, relatively very few people really understand how it works. The idea that a hulking Boeing 747 weighing 200 tonnes could lift off the ground and fly several thousand miles seems to many an impossible occurrence. Blatner enlightens us by teaching us to believe in the unseen; the invisible air molecules that act like a liquid to give the aircraft flight.

Fullof amusing anecdotes and eye-opening statistics, this book will tell you everything you could possibly want or need to know about flying.

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Review:

If you're moderately uncomfortable about flying, The Flying Book is likely to be of some reassurance. If you won't step inside the terminals at Heathrow for love nor money, then you need more help than David Blatner can offer. For the rest of us, The Flying Book is funny, contains more information about flying than you'll ever need, and it's a gold mine for one-liner airline stats (The Observer)

Hundreds of facts (are) packed into David Blatner's useful little tome (Erica Wagner, The Times)

Synopsis:

One of the most fascinating facts about flying is that while almost everybody does it, relatively few people really understand how it works. The idea that a hulking Boeing 747 weighing 200 tonnes could lift off the ground and fly several thousand miles seems to many an impossible occurrence. David Blatner enlightens us by teaching us to believe in the unseen; the invisible air molecules that act like a liquid to give the aircraft flight. Full of anecdotes and eye-opening statistics, this title should tell you all you could possibly want or need to know about flying.

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