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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Langewiesche, William.     Subjects     Fly-by-wire control.     Airplanes -- Control systems.     Aeronautics -- Human factors.     Aircraft accidents -- New York (State) -- New York.     Aircraft bird strikes -- New York (State) -- New York.     US Airways Flight 1549 Crash Landing, Hudson River, N.Y. and N.J., 2009.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Langewiesche, William.       by title:      Fly by wire : the ge...         MARC Display

Fly by wire : the geese, the glide, the miracle on the Hudson / William Langewiesche. by Langewiesche, William. New York : Farrar Straus & Giroux 2009. Subjects Fly-by-wire control.   Airplanes -- Control systems.   Aeronautics -- Human factors.   Aircraft accidents -- New York (State) -- New York.   Aircraft bird strikes -- New York (State) -- New York.   US Airways Flight 1549 Crash Landing, Hudson River, N.Y. and N.J., 2009. ISBN:  0374157189 (hbk.) : 9780374157180 (hbk.) : Description:  193 p. : map ; 22 cm. Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  New York, January 15, 2009 -- Prologue : the inquest -- Gear up : The takeoff ; The birds ; The collision ; The glide -- Fly by wire : The engineer ; The problem ; The paradox -- Survival : The decision ; The flare ; The escape. Requests:  0 Summary:  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, the author assembles the stories necessary to truly understand the "miracle" on the Hudson, and makes us question our assumptions about human beings in modern aviation.--from publisher description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 363.12412 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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