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747 is the thrilling story behind "the Queen of the Skies" - the Boeing 747 - as told by Joe Sutter, one of the most celebrated engineers of the 20th century, who spearheaded its design and construction. Sutter's vivid narrative takes us back to a time when American technology was…
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Joe Sutter was the chief engineer of the iconic Boeing 747, leading a skilled team of engineers and technicians known reverentially as “The Incredibles” that developed the revolutionary airliner in just twenty-nine months from initial drawings to roll out. In many ways, Sutter’s memoir is a requiem for a bygone era in commercial aviation. Serving on the Presidential commission that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger accident, Sutter faulted the safety culture at NASA and contrasted it to the policy of Boeing at the time which considered government certification requirements as only the minimum acceptable safety standards and not design goals.…
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