‘If you’re a frequent flyer, it’s easy to become blasé about the remarkable technology that lies at the heart of aviation. Yet, as Brian Clegg points out in this entertaining and informative book, we’ve come a very long way in just over a century’
Posted on 2011/05/31 , tagged as
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British Airways’ Business Life magazine has Brian Clegg’s Inflight Science as Book of the Month in the latest issue.
‘He explains how Newton’s three laws of motion come into effect during take-off. He reveals that Einstein’s concept of ‘special relativity’ means that after 40 years of crossing the Atlantic every week, you would be one thousandth of a second younger than an identical twin. More prosaically, he even goes into the mechanics of the onboard toilet.’
