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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The scene before dawn at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta on October 29 2018 was like that at any other big airport in the age of routinized international travel. In the concourses bleary- eyed families and solo travelers clumped outside gates or gulped a hurried breakfast from Dunkin’ Donuts or Burger King the latter of which in this majority Muslim country offered a Halal-certified rice and crispy chicken combo (the King Deal). Others window- shopped for Kiehl’s face cream or electronic gadgets. As the sun rose it was finally light enough to see the tropical gardens of narra trees palms and orchids outside-one of the few clues the traveler wasn’t in Kansas City or Stuttgart. Not many gave a thought to the machines parked beside the jerways many of them Boeing 737s the stub-nosed workhorses of airline fleets since the 1970s. Commercial aircraft are considered the world’s premier expression of manufacturing excellence designed by tens of thousands of people around the world who put their hands on them at first figuratively on the computer screens of engineers and then literally when machinists climb underneath them to hand-crank stubborn rivets to the desired torque. Before the planes leave Boeing’s factory near Seattle. (SP)