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Also by William Langewiesche:

Fly by Wire, November 2010
Paperback
The Atomic Bazaar, May 2007
Hardcover
The Outlaw Sea, June 2005
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FLY BY WIRE
By: William Langewiesche

Picador
November 2010
On Sale: October 26, 2010
208 pages
ISBN: 031265538X
EAN: 9780312655389
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

In Fly by Wire, one of America’s greatest journalists takes us on a "fascinating" (The New York Times) and sometimes humorous journey into the rapidly changing aviation industry. Langewiesche concisely and artfully renders forty years of history in the field by examining the financial problems, the unions, and ultimately the recent advances in technology. And he finds that aviation safety is field in which machine has now surpassed man, but man still manages to find ways -- hubris, ineptitude -- to cause accidents. Advances such as fly by wire suggest that in some cases it may prove best to cede authority to the machines, even if it means questioning our assumptions about human beings and heroism in the process.

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