The path to jet travel was amazingly rapid - less than 50 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight, Great Britain led the world with the first commercial jet plane service. In 'Jet Age', Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of the first jet airliners and the people who designed, built and flew them.
The path to jet travel was amazingly rapid - less than 50 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight, Great Britain led the world with the first co...