Read the Reviews
"Imagine the audacity of taking a prototype for a new kind of flying machine – a large passenger jet – and demonstrating it in front of airline executives by corkscrewing through the air in a barrel roll. Would Boeing ever do such a thing with its new 787? Never. But it did happen with the 707, patriarch of today’s Boeing buses." -- 'Middle Seat' Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
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"The Week" magazine -- "Book of the Week" - November 5, 2010
"One needn’t be an aviation buff to appreciate its colorful stories of the test pilots, stewardesses, and entrepreneurs who helped shepherd commercial travel into the modern era." -
Kitsap Sun - October 31, 2010
"A written history of passenger jet design could have become a ponderous work in someone else’s hands, but Verhovek’s reportage blends social and industrial history with lively human interest stories — it adds up to a top-notch read." -
KUOW -- October 18, 2010
Interview with Steve Scher on KUOW, Seattle public radio -
"Weekend Edition," National Public Radio - October 16, 2010
Interview with Scott Simon on "Weekend Edition" -
The Wall Street Journal -- October 9, 2010
"Shrinking the World How jetliners commercialized air travel—stewardesses and all" -
The Washington Times - October 8, 2010
"Sam Howe Verhovek, a true globetrotter in the course of a long career as a journalist, has a way of conveying not only the dry facts about jet travel - how it boosted tourism exponentially and doomed the great ocean liners that had transported passengers overseas in such style - but also the excitement it engendered."