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	Airframe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Airframe design is a challenging field of engineering, combining aerodynamics, materials technology and manufacturing methods to achieve favorable balances of performance, reliability and cost.
		Eventually Boeing in the U.S. and Airbus in France became the dominant assemblers of large airframes.
		Four major eras in commercial airframe production stand out: all-aluminum structures beginning in the 1920s, high-strength alloys and high-speed airfoils beginning in the 1940s, long-range designs and improved efficiencies beginning in the 1960s, and composite material construction beginning in the 1980s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Airframe (614 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Airframe
		His first novel, The Andromeda Strain, was written back in a time when our astronauts returning from the moon were quarantined for fear of spreading some extraterrestrial germs, and his more recent works have dealt with everything from xenophobia to gene-splicing to sexual harassment.
		Airframe is no different, and in light of recent tragedies in Florida and off the coast of New Jersey, it is very topical.
		If Airframe has any ax to grind (and this may generate some controversy), it is with the carriers, who take the fine jets the manufacturers give them and literally run them into the ground.
	www.bookpage.com /9612bp/fiction/airframe.html (434 words)

	Airframe (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Airframe is a novel by Michael Crichton, first published in hardback edition in 1996 and as a paperback edition in 1997 by Ballantine Books.
		As is common in Crichton's novels, the author uses the false document literary device, presenting numerous technical documents to create a sense of authenticity.
		Airline safety procedures are a central theme in the novel, and facts and statistics from real-world accidents are often used to flesh out the story.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Airframe_(novel) (503 words)

	The Internet Book Database of Fiction :: View topic - Michael (John) Crichton - Airframe - 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		I have to say at this point that "Airframe" could still have been a great novel with which to explore issues like products liability, airlines and the media, but the plot is built on two large elements that make “Airframe” an unnecessarily bad read.
		Lastly, despite a novel looking into the dynamics of commercial aviation, and despite Crichton’s reputation for books that are meticulously researched, “Airframe” doesn’t even seem all that realistic.
		“Airframe” is meant to pit the informed scientists of the aviation industry against the ignorant profiteers of the litigation industry and the media, but there are no main characters who are pilots or engineers.
	www.ibdof.com /viewtopic.php?t=112921 (1233 words)

	Airframe - Health Care Products - HealthCareStuff.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Her investigation is given a sense of urgency by a looming multi-millionaire dollar deal the company has in the works that could potentially fall apart if Norton is to blame for this accident.
		But if you liked the fast-paced action of those two novels, you may be somewhat disappointed as this book seems to be a little more mature.
		Airframe by Michael Crichton is a little differant from the other books I've read by him (Timeline, State of Fear, and Prey).
	www.healthcarestuff.com /product/0345402871-Airframe.html (1054 words)

	Airframe, State of Fear, Prey by Michael Crichton - book reviews
		Whenever a foreign country buys airframes, part of the deal is to send some part of the manufacturing to that country.
		There are no surprises here given the wealth of data interspersed throughout the novel but it is a welcome addition to the novel from a discussion point of view.
		This is not like reading a Greg Bear novel in which Bear explains for pages and pages what a phage is in relation to bacteria.
	mostlyfiction.com /spy-thriller/crichton.htm (3727 words)

	Airframe by Michael Crichton
		With flight crew missing, union goons seeking revenge, and a make-or-break sale hanging in the balance, Casey races the clock to uncover the true story of Flight TP 525 before her career, and maybe her life, meet an untimely demise.
		Airframe is definitely a wild ride and worth the ticket price - just buckle your seat belt.
		Randy Sekeres is a freelance consultant and writer who is active in several philosophical and critical-inquiry organizations.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Jul04/airframe.htm (688 words)

	Dark Horizons - How Mosh Pits work on Airlines
		The rescue workers are unprepared for the sight that awaits them as the injured and/or dead passengers are escorted out of the virtually destroyed interior cabin.
		Casey Singleton and the rest of the staff at Norton Aircraft, the company who manufactured the plane's airframe structure, begin their own investigations into the cause of the disaster and are given 5 days to do it in.
		The film version of the novel has been in 'Development Hell' for about three years now, and looks nearly set to move forward depending upon when actors and filmmakers will commit to the project.
	www.darkhorizons.com /2002/airframe/air-n.htm (550 words)

	Michael Crichton -- All Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Crichton's avidly anticipated Airframe seems to step right out of today's headlines as the bestselling author turns his literary talents to the events surrounding a lethal mid-air accident on a commercial airliner.
		Just as he did with his #1 bestselling Disclosure, Crichton centers his new novel on one of the current issues uppermost in the public mind: this time, the issue of safety and death in the skies.
		In his first novel since the runaway bestseller Jurassic Park, Crichton's signature amalgam of suspense and science is put to dazzling effect in Rising Sun: a thrilling murder mystery that unfolds in the arena of volatile Japanese-American relations.
	www.non.com /books/Crichton_Michael_cc.html (6041 words)

	The Coral Tree :: Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Airframe is a novel by Michael Crichton about the airline industry.
		The novel is the story of Casey, Vice President of QA at Norton and how she finds the cause of the mishap.
		All in all, I felt that Airframe is not as good as Crichton's other books, but it is still un-put-downable.
	puggy.symonds.net /~ash/blog/index.php?entry=95 (324 words)

	Doorly.com: Airframe
		In "Jurassic Park," he laid out his theories so well that, I believe one day I might be gawking at a T-Rex behind a 50 foot electric fence.
		Like all of his previous novels, Airframe is being made into a movie.
		There are a few showstoppers in the novel that will translate well onto the screen: the opening scene, a chase through the humongous airplane hangars at Norton, and the climatic test flight.
	www.doorly.com /writing/airframe.htm (612 words)

	Airframe film movie trailer review at The Z Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Michael Crichton has a deal set up that whatever he writes as a novel has the movie rights sold as well.
		Both scenes are vital to the plot of the movie and this is where we are at at the moment.
		This page has no intention to infringe on the rights of the film and intellectual copyright holders of Airframe and hold copyright over the movie, characters, merchandise and storyline.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/a/airframe.htm (225 words)

	eBay - Book: Airframe (ISBN: 0679457976) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Airframe is nonstop listening: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since The Andromeda Strain.
		The novel starts off with every air passengers nightmare: a near crash which kills 3 passengers and injuries 40 all in a...
		Michael Crichton's Airframe is not the science fiction thriller that we are used to reading from him, but he makes it an interesting read nonetheless.
	product.ebay.com /Airframe_ISBN_0679457976_W0QQfvcsZ1390QQsoprZ1823334 (904 words)

	Free Essays on Airframe
		Below is free essays on Airframe by 123Student, your one-stop source for free essays, free college term papers, and free term papers.
		The main character of the novel is Casey Singleton.
		Michael Crichton, the author of Airframe, was born in Chicago in 1942
	www.123student.com /570.htm (881 words)

	Adapting Crichton
		he novel begins (after prefatory material meant to convince us that time travel is plausible) with a grumpy tourist husband and his wife driving through the Arizona desert looking for Indian crafts.
		There are several of these red herrings in the novel, and they must be deemphasized by the adapter or the viewer will be confused.
		One of the best parts of the novel is when the characters unearth a document that is 600 years old, but written in Johnston's handwriting, pleading for help.
	www.cinemonkey.com /reviews/holmtimeline/holmtimeline.html (1729 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Airframe: Books: Michael Crichton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		But, unfortunately, Airframe left me with nothing but a boring and informative report on an airplane crash.
		Yes, there were some exiting moments like the mysterious men chasing the main character through the airplane hanger, you think how can grown men become so bad because their bosses told them to.
		Airframe does not deviate from the usual Crichton style of science and thriller.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Airframe-Michael-Crichton/dp/0099556316 (932 words)

	Dark Horizons - How Mosh Pits work on Airlines
		The film version of the novel has been in 'Development Hell' for about 2-3 years now, and looks nearly set to move forward depending upon when actors and filmmakers will commit to the project.
		In any case Disney spent a whopping $10 million oon the film rights to the novel, they sure don't want that money to go to waste.
		This page has no intention to infringe on the rights of Disney Pictures, who is the intellectual property holder of 'Airframe', & hold copyright over the movie, characters, merchandise & storyline.
	www.darkhorizons.com /2001/airframe/air-n.htm (530 words)

	12/23/96 MISHAP AT 37,000 FEET
		As you may have heard by now, Michael Crichton has centered his latest novel, Airframe, on a fatal mishap on a passenger airplane cruising at 37,000 feet.
		The incident on Airframe's fictional TransPacific Airlines flight 545 is just the starting point of a 352-page mystery that goes behind the scenes of the U.S. aerospace industry, the media, organized labor, and the life of a divorced working mother.
		Overall, Airframe is about as nuanced as the instructions you get from a flight attendant prior to takeoff.
	netscape.businessweek.com /1996/52/b350732.htm (771 words)

	ASA 148th Meeting Lay Language Papers -Insert Laypaper Title Here
		The Silent Aircraft airframe is expected to be a configuration in which the wing and fuselage are merged together, as illustrated in Figure 1.
		Firstly, the potential for noise reduction is increased because there is more space for acoustic treatments, greater reflection of the noise away from the ground by the airframe body and more possibility to reshape the exhaust jet.
		Secondly, the airframe design is expected to improve because it will have lower weight and improved handling.
	www.aip.org /148th/hall.html (1295 words)

	Focke-Achgelis
		A small aircraft offered a novel solution to this problem, but only if the submarine could remain undetected on the surface to launch and recover it.
		he airframe consisted of two 6.35 cm (2.5 in) diameter steel tubes joined to form an inverted 'T.' One tube served as the fuselage of the aircraft, which mounted the pilot's seat and rear control surfaces.
		The towline disconnected from the aircraft, freeing the submarine to dive immediately, and the spinning rotor simultaneously departed from the airframe rotor mast.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/focke_achgelis.htm (2358 words)

	Von Braun
		The novel was reportedly awful and has never surfaced.
		Von Braun himself, in the preface to his 1948 novel appendix, published in the US as 'The Mars Project' in 1962, compared the performance of his 1948 design with the pending Saturn V. But detailed examination of the designs show this was all simply a misconception.
		During this time the glider experienced a peak deceleration of 0.45 G and a peak airframe temperature of 1005 deg K. The airframe of the glider was seen as reaching a thermal equilibrium during the long glide, where it could re-radiate heat as quickly as it was absorbed.
	www.astronautix.com /lvfam/vonbraun.htm (3213 words)

	Michael Crichton: You Ask The Questions
		I hear that, while you are writing a novel, you eat the same meal every day.
		Your novel Airframe is about an investigation of an air disaster.
		Unfortunately, my nightmares are disappointingly dull: I can't get the computer code right; I can't find my way through the train station; I am trapped at a tedious cocktail party and can't leave; the doctor is going to stick lots of needles in me; I can't remember the names of people I meet.
	www.crichton-official.com /speeches/speeches_quote06.html (1204 words)

	Michael Crichton's AIRFRAME
		Michael Crichton's Airframe: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton hallmark since The Andromeda Strain.
		Although based on real events, this is a work of fiction.
		Characters, companies, organizations, and agencies in this novel are either the product of the author's imagination, or, if real, used fictitiously without any intent to describe their actual content.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/crichton/airframe (80 words)

	Written by Michael Crichton quiz -- free game
		Michael Crichton's novel "Eaters of the Dead" is based on which historical story?
		The novel that flung Crichton into the spotlight, "The Andromeda Strain" deals with a deadly virus coming from where?
		Another novel made into a movie, which novel deals with a murder at the top of a Japanese office building at the night of the opening?
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=183694 (384 words)

	NovelGuide: Biography: Michael Crichton
		His first novel under his own name was The Andromeda Strain, which was published in his last year of medical school.
		His ability to take the latest scientific and technological issues and make them material for fast-paced thrillers ensured his status as a regular best-selling author.
		In addition to his novels, he has also written four books of nonfiction, including Five Patients, Jasper Johns, and his autobiography, Travels.
	www.novelguide.com /JPark/biography.html (321 words)

	OxfordMaterials \| Dr Colin Johnston (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Current capacitor technology significantly limits the temperature capability and electrical performance of power electronics relative to the "More Electric Airframe" systems requirements, which are emerging rapidly as a key priority for both aeroengine and airframe manufacturers.
		Novel capacitor materials combining high dielectric ceramics and high performance polymers are being developed for aero-engine applications, particularly within the more electric aircraft concept.
		Investigations include characterisation of the fundamental material properties using advanced analytical instruments, clean room characterisation of the electrical properties, development of fabrication routes, and modelling of behaviour for lifetime prediction.
	www.materials.ox.ac.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /peoplepages/johnston.html (894 words)

	airframe - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "airframe" is defined.
		Airframe : Military Aviation Terms and Definitions [home, info]
		Phrases that include airframe: rolling airframe missile, airframe icing
	www.onelook.com /?w=airframe (149 words)

	Books - Airframe
		With only a week left till the deal is signed, Casey Singleton is under immense pressure to discover the true reason for the accident and vindicate the N-22 design.
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	listing-index.ebay.com /books/Airframe_(novel).html (458 words)

	Book Information: Airframe :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		Book Information: Airframe :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation.
		Airframe is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since The Andromeda Strain.
	www.iblist.com /book1880.htm (199 words)

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