Vertical Challenge: The Hiller Aircraft Story
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (980 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0759633991 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 236 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Founded by Stanley Hiller, Jr., Hiller Aircraft produced conventional and ramjet helicopters, flying platforms, and other fascination flying machines.. Vertical Challenge: The Hiller Aircraft Story Chronicles the most innovative and least remembered of the helicopter industry's pioneering companies
If you're interested in the Hiller story, this book is good. I haven't finished reading this book yet, but have completed several chapters and so cannot offer a complete review as of yet (I had to photocopy the sections I wanted out of a reference book in the library). The incredibly meanspirited review offered previously is clearly from someone with an axe to grind. To say that this book only merits 1 star is absurdly out of line, hostile and defamatory.Although. "Pedestrian corporate history with no soul or depth to it." according to A Customer. Extremely pedestrian corporate history told by a rank amateur writer. His whole intro ("Just like Wilbur and Orville") reads as if it were a junior high-school essay, and a very poor one at that. The rest of the book is no great shakes, either. What you get is a book that goes on ad-nauseum about the various projects this company engaged in, with no real explanation as to what they were, why they were b. J. Mark Wolf said I'm a helicopter a pilot and love to read about the rotorcraft development pioneers. I read this book a few years ago and have been wanting to read it again, but I loaned it out and haven't seen it since.I'll have to buy it again!I'm a helicopter a pilot and love to read about the rotorcraft development pioneers.This is one of the best books on the subject I have read. Don't know where that other guy is coming from.