Airframe
The twin jet plane en route to Denver from Hong Kong is merely a green radar blip half an hour off the California coast when the call comes through to air traffic control Socal Approach, this is TransPacific 545 We have an emergency The pilot requests priority clearance to land then comes the bombshell he needs forty ambulances on the runway.But nothing prepares the rescue workers for the carnage they witness when they enter the plane.Ninety four passengers are injured Three dead The interior cabin virtually destroyed.What happened on board Flight TPA 545 Download Airframe – kino-fada.fr Rating 3.5 breathless stars of fiveI really hate flying I m not scared of it, I just dislike being herded into inky dinky seats meant for short people by ill tempered sky waiters who charge for pillows and booze, and then I have to paythan I used to make a week for the privilege of being searched, patted by men I m not attracted to in places I don t want to be patted unless I am, etc etc etc.Fifteen years ago, all that wasor less to come, and storymonger Crichton used planes for a Rating 3.5 breathless stars of fiveI really hate flying I m not scared of it, I just dislike being herded into inky dinky seats meant for short people by ill tempered sky waiters who charge for pillows and booze, and then I have to paythan I used to make a week for the privilege of being searched, patted by men I m not attracted to in places I don t want to be patted unless I am, etc etc etc.Fifteen years ago, all that wasor less to come, and storymonger Crichton used planes for a very different kind of tale What happens to cause a huge section of a plane to go flooey , killing a few people and making the entire world nervous about flying We re about to find out, Casey Singleton and the reader that is We re going to go into surprisingly interesting amounts of detail about the structure, the manufacture, the sales, the service, the use of airplanes, and how...I read this book aloud to my husband during the past week or so, and parts of it were very dramatic, but other parts all those charts were a bit dull even though we knew they were important I don t know how a narrator for an audio version would read them, I either handed the book to Marco and let him see for himself, or else I just said lots of numbers that I am not going to read We got the gist of it all anyway.Casey Singleton is in charge of a team trying to figure out what went wrong o I read this book aloud to my husband during the past week or so, and parts of it were very dramatic, but other parts all those charts were a bit dull even though we knew they were important I don t know how a narrator for an audio version would read them, I either handed the book to Marco and let him see for himself, or else I just said lots of numbers that I am not going to read We got the gist of it all anyway.Casey Singleton is in charge of a team trying to figure out what went wrong on flight 545, which did not crash but had a severe inflight incident There are many layers to what is involved, and it seems that everyone around her has some reason to keep her from finding out the truth Typical Chrichton fast moving story, but it does tend to porpoise a bit just like the plane itself did We would just get super interested in the action when the story would stall out into technical details or background or...Mike gave me this book when we visited him, Anna, and Kaley at their Woodbridge apt jesus it must be 3 or 4 or 5 years ago I remember how funny he was about it Convo went something like this MS Hey Jay I got this book for you to haveme Oh really Well, what s it about MS Pfft fuck if I know Anna tried it I tried it Too many goddamn acronyms in it me laughs MS I m serious, dude It s all about an airliner crash But the fuckin author uses every acronym under the s Mike gave me this book when we visited him, Anna, and Kaley at their Woodbridge apt jesus it must be 3 or 4 or 5 years ago I remember how funny he was about it Convo went something like this MS Hey Jay I got this book for you to have...This is my first Crichton since the Andromeda Strain written so many years ago Another reason to ignore the professional critics who have not been terribly kind to Crichton in the past few years I really liked this book It has a marvelous blend of science, information and a good plot that keeps the pages turning.It s interesting that many of the reviews I read focused on the aircraft industry I think the book isabout the media and it s relentless pursuit of the visual and the sound bit This is my first Crichton since the Andromeda Strain written so many years ago Another reason to ignore the professional critics who have not been terribly kind to Crichton in the past few years I really liked this book It has a marvelous blend of science, information and a good plot that keeps the pages turning.It s interesting that many of the reviews I read focused on the aircraft industry I think the book isabout the media and it s relentless pursuit of the visual and the sound bite at the expense of truth and the whole picturethan about airplanes.Enroute from Hong Kong to Denver, a brand new Norton 22, a plane clearly modeled on the Boeing 747, pitches and dives like a porpoise before being brought under control The violent maneuvers kill three passengers and injur...I will be putting up my review of Stoner tomorrow, I promise I need to fine tune it some.Butto the point, Airframe was a book that I enjoyed quite some time back My mother is a huge fan of Crichton, and as a result, we have his whole collection at home I was about 15 when she mother dearest first read Airframe, and I very vividly remember her raving about it Being an engineer herself, it was quite obvious that she would enjoy it And being as far from being an engineer as can be, I w I will be putting up my review of Stoner tomorrow, I promise I need to fine tune it some.Butto the point, Airframe was a book that I enjoyed quite some time back My mother is a huge fan of Crichton, and as a result, we have his whole collection at home I was about 15 when she mother dearest first read Airframe, and I very vividly remember her raving abou...Read this a while ago Back then I probably would have given it four or five stars, but tastes change I remember starting to read this, while sitting in a plane, about to hurl itself down a runway to take off and thi...When Michael Crichton is good he is very, very good but this effort is just plain horrible The only reason I finished it is due to my obsession about not wanting to miss anything I found myself reading the first sentence of paragraphs and skipping the rest to movequickly to the end I don t think I missed anything doing it that way.The characters are stereotyped beyond belief the hard working but put upon single mother, the brusque and impatient boss, the techy nerds, the debonair test When Michael Crichton is good he is very, very good but this effort is just plain horrible The only reason I finished it is due to my obsession about not wanting to miss anything I found myself reading the first sentence of paragraphs and skipping the rest to movequickly to the end I don t think I missed anything doing it that way.The characters are stereotyped beyond belief the hard working but put upon single mother, the brusque and impatient boss, the techy nerds, the debonair test pilot, the slimy industrial spy, the good hearted mentor, the young, overly am...As someone who worked most of my life in Aerospace, on the supersonic B 1 bomber, and then on several Titan missile and launch vehicle programs, I found the book well researched There were a few times when I said to myself, In what manufacturing area would THAT occur But he s right on with the incessant use of acronyms, and the increasing prevalence of cost cutting maneuvers that end up compromising flight safety And I believe he s right on about the maneuvers of the airline companies that As someone who worked most of my life in Aerospace, on the supersonic B 1 bomber, and then on several Titan missile and launch vehicle programs, I found the book well researched There were a few times when I said to myself, In what manufacturing area would THAT occur But he s right on with the incessant use of acronyms, and the increasing prevalence of cost cutting maneuvers that end up compromising flight safety And I believe he s right on about the maneuvers of the airline com...One of those books that I liked but did not like enough Like most of his other books, this one is well researched by Crichton but I guess not enough to hold my full attention The beginning was fun , for a lack of a better word how fun can airplane accidents be and even the whole technology mumbo jumbo was somewhat fun trust me, there is a lot of it but than the political thing came along where contracts were threatened due to safety issues concerns and my brain tried to turn itself off One of those books that I liked but did not like enough Like most of his other books, this one is well researched by Crichton but I guess not enough to hold my full attention The beginning was fun , for a lack of a better word how fun can airplane accidents be and even the whole technology mumbo jumbo was somewhat fun trust me, there is a lot of it but than the political thing came along where contracts were threatened due to safety issues concerns and my brai...This was my first Michael Crighton book I know, I know, I m an idiot for never reading him before I really enjoyed Airframe It was a fast paced techno mystery from the first to the last I feel like I learned a lot about the design, manufacturing and flying of commercial aircraft I also learned how lax the quality control is for airlines seriously, I might never fly again Casey is a quality investigator for an airplane manufacturer who is sent to investigate an incident tha...
- English
- 26 July 2017 Michael Crichton
- Paperback
- 431 pages
- 0099556316
- Michael Crichton
- Airframe