The CHALLENGE
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Canvas finish, Hardcover ( rounded spine binding ) |
| Special features | First edition, Slightly damaged dust jacket |
| Condition | Very Good |
| Number of pages | 236 |
| Published date | 1958 |
| Languages | English |
| Size | 15 x 23 x 3 cm |
| Author | Harold Mansfield |
| Editor | ALLAN WINGATE ( Publishers ) Ltd. |
Description
THE CHALLENGE is a story of the conquest of the unknown. It is the human story behind the great adventure of the Twentieth Century - man's struggle to overcome the barriers of time and space.
The author saw, in the spectacular development of the aeroplane from stick - and - wire machines to swept - wing jets, the drama of progress, and has written his story of success, failure, and again success in a popular, non - technical style which reads like fiction. It is an account not only of the planes, but of the people behind them, of the men who had crazy notions and proved them right, men at drawingboards, men with joysticks. The central figures are the key men of one organisation - the Boeing Airplane Company - and others, in military services, airlines and in the Government, who shared their problems. ( ... ) it is a story of the struggles that have gone on in the minds of men seeking always to improve, to fly higher, faster, and to make the conquest of the air more certain. ( ... )
