747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation
May 9, 2026
The creation story of Jumbo Jet 747
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Brunelleschi's Dome: Engineering Renaissance Florence
April 24, 2025
Ross King's masterful account of how Filippo Brunelleschi built the impossible—a massive dome over Florence's cathedral without wooden scaffolding, revolutionizing architecture and engineering in the process.
Continue readingThe Path Between the Seas: Building the Panama Canal
August 4, 2024
David McCullough's epic account of one of history's greatest engineering feats. From French failure to American triumph, the story of cutting a continent in half and connecting two oceans.
Continue reading747: Creating the World's First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a Life in Aviation
by Joe Sutter
The creation story of Jumbo Jet 747
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by David McCullough
The epic story of building the Panama Canal—cutting a continent in half and connecting two oceans.
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by Ross King
How Filippo Brunelleschi built the impossible—a massive dome over Florence's cathedral without scaffolding.
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by Earl Swift
The incredible story of the Lunar Rover and the final three Apollo moon missions.
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