How to land a plane
Vanhoenacker, Mark2017
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Imagine the pilot of the plane you're on is suddenly ill. Only you can take over. What do you do? Mark Vanhoenacker, the airline pilot who makes poetry out of the science of flight technology, turns the nerve-wracking reality of hitting the runway into a practical but also meaningful experience, in this fascinating guide to the magical art of flying. Flight shows us a new immensity, but also reminds us where we come from. And even as it puts us in our proper relationship to the infinite, even as it makes us feel so tiny, it uplifts us. But flying also comes with a whole lot of rather tedious manuals. In this short, humorous and spiritual guide, the bestselling author of 'Skyfaring' makes these manuals more accessible and fun as he describes one of the most important and liminal phases of flight: the transition from air to ground.
Main title:
How to land a plane / Mark Vanhoenacker.
Author:
Vanhoenacker, Mark, author
Imprint:
London : Quercus, 2017.
Collation:
58 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9781786487155 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
629.132521629.1325213629.132 VANH629.1325 VAN
Language:
English
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BRN:
1274073
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