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747 : creating the world's first jumbo jet and other adventures from a life in aviation
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747 : creating the world's first jumbo jet and other adventures from a life in aviation

Author: Joseph F Sutter; Jay P Spenser
Publisher: New York : Smithsonian : Collins, 2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st ed
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Joseph F Sutter; Joseph F Sutter; Joseph F Sutter
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Joseph F Sutter; Jay P Spenser
ISBN: 0060882417 9780060882419
OCLC Number: 62342246
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xiv, 272 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Growing up with aviation --
University and war --
Doug LA, Boeing and the Stratocruiser --
The jet age --
I get the 747 --
A Giant takes shape --
Willing to be fired --
The wing and weight crises --
The 77 rolls out --
Into the air --
Transforming the world --
New assignments --
The Challenger disaster --
Consulting in retirement.
Other Titles: Seven forty-seven
Responsibility: Joe Sutter with Jay Spenser.
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