Blue Sky Metropolis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blue Sky Metropolis write by Peter J. Westwick. This book was released on 2012-06-04. Blue Sky Metropolis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Like citrus, oil, movies, radio, and television, aerospace helped create Southern California and embody its values. Blue Sky Metropolis launches an entirely fresh consideration of an iconic industry that answered the immemorial hunger of the human race for flight and the future."--Kevin Starr, University of Southern California "Blue Sky Metropolis presents an intriguing survey of a unique time in Southern California history, when cheap land and benign weather lured massive aerospace enterprises to the region—eventually serving as home to nearly half of the nation’s defense and space fabricators. Before there was a Silicon Valley, high-tech dreamers were on the loose in the Southland, creating inventions as diverse as the Voyager planetary spacecraft and the Stealth bomber. These highly readable essays help us understand how it happened—how Southern California shaped aerospace, and vice versa."—Charles Elachi, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory "Peter Westwick has assembled a rich collection of essays that tell a wonderful story about the importance of the aerospace industry to Southern California and the importance of Southern California to the aerospace industry. There's technology, sociology, economics, geography, anthropology, and much more woven through the chapters. It's an ambitious project, but it succeeds in being interesting, informative, and entertaining."—Michael Rich, President and CEO, The RAND Corporation
The Blue Sky, V.1
The Blue Sky, V.1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Blue Sky, V.1 write by . This book was released on 1899. The Blue Sky, V.1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Stealth
Stealth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stealth write by Peter Westwick. This book was released on 2020. Stealth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story behind the technology that revolutionized both aeronautics, and the course of history.On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen airplanes appeared in the skies over Baghdad. Or, rather, didn't appear. They arrived in the dark, their black outlines cloaking them from sight. More importantly, their odd, angular shapes, which made them look like flying origami, rendered themundetectable to Iraq's formidable air defenses. Stealth technology, developed during the decades before Desert Storm, had arrived. To American planners and strategists at the outset of the Cold War, this seemingly ultimate way to gain ascendance over the USSR was only a question. What if the UnitedStates could defend its airspace while at the same time send a plane through Soviet skies undetected? A craft with such capacity would have to be essentially invisible to radar - an apparently miraculous feat of physics and engineering. In Stealth, Peter Westwick unveils the process by which theimpossible was achieved.At heart, Stealth is a tale of two aerospace companies, Lockheed and Northrop, and their fierce competition - with each other and with themselves - to obtain what was estimated one of the largest procurement contracts in history. Westwick's book fully explores the individual and collective ingenuityand determination required to make these planes and in the process provides a fresh view of the period leading up to the end of the Soviet Union. Taking into account the role of technology, as well as the art and science of physics and engineering, Westwick offers an engaging narrative, one thatimmerses readers in the race to produce a weapon that some thought might save the world, and which certainly changed it.
Hazardous Metropolis
Hazardous Metropolis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hazardous Metropolis write by Jared Orsi. This book was released on 2004-01-05. Hazardous Metropolis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An fascinating history of flood control efforts in Los Angeles from the 1870s to the present, showing how engineering has continually failed to contain nature. This book teaches us to think of cities as ecosystems.
The Blue Sky
The Blue Sky - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Blue Sky write by Gary Snyder. This book was released on 1969. The Blue Sky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
