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The Dream Machine: The Untold History Of The Notorious V-22 Osprey MP3CD 2 Disk
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- Signed
- No
- Case Type
- Tall/DVD Case
- Book Series
- N/A
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Type
- Audiobook
- Era
- 2000s
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Unabridged
- Run Time
- 18.5 Hours
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Narrator
- Michael Prichard
- ISBN
- 9781400164165
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- CD Mp3
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Dream Machine : the Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Incorporated
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, History
- Topic
- Military Science, General, Military / Aviation
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When the Marines decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid "tiltrotor" called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. The Marines saw it as key to their very survival.By 2000, the Osprey was nine years late and billions of dollars over budget, bedeviled by technological hurdles, business rivalries, and an epic political battle over whether to build it at all. Opponents called it one of the worst boondoggles in Pentagon history. The Marines were eager to put it into service anyway. Then two crashes killed twenty-three Marines. They still refused to abandon the Osprey, even after the Corps' own proud reputation was tarnished by a national scandal over accusations that a commander had ordered subordinates to lie about the aircraft's problems.Based on in-depth research and hundreds of interviews, The Dream Machine recounts the Marines' quarter-century struggle to get the Osprey into combat. Whittle takes the listener from the halls of the Pentagon and Congress to the war zone of Iraq, from the engineer's drafting table to the cockpits of the civilian and Marine pilots who risked their lives flying the Osprey-and sometimes lost them. He reveals the methods, motives, and obsessions of those who designed, sold, bought, flew, and fought for the tiltrotor. These stories, including never-before-published eyewitness accounts of the crashes that made the Osprey notorious, not only chronicle an extraordinary chapter in Marine Corps history but also provide a fascinating look at a machine that could still revolutionize air travel.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Tantor Media, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1400164168
ISBN-13
9781400164165
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038764721
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Military Science, General, Military / Aviation
Book Title
Dream Machine : the Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey
Language
English
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History
Format
CD Mp3
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6in.
Item Length
7.4in.
Item Weight
3.2 Oz
Item Width
5.3in.
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Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Kevin Foley narrates with sonorous speech that can make one's eardrums resonate. Foley's from-the-page style adds no frills or impersonations to the writer's extensive factual passages." ---AudioFile, "Kevin Foley narrates with sonorous speech that can make one's eardrums resonate. Foley's from-the-page style adds nofrills or impersonations to the writer's extensive factual passages." ---AudioFile
Number of Volumes
2 Vols.
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Narrated by
Foley, Kevin
Copyright Date
2010
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