"The text of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker, and was developed with the editorial counsel of William Shawn and Robert Bingham."--Title page verso.
Summary:
This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship--huge, wingless, moving slowly through the lower sky. John McPhee chronicles the perhaps unfathomable perseverance of the aircraft's sucessive progenitors.
