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Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft Audiobook, by Peter Westwick Play Audiobook Sample

Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft Audiobook

Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft Audiobook, by Peter Westwick Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: David de Vries Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: May 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781705258668

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

14

Longest Chapter Length:

58:37 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

17:36 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

33:14 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than sixty feet in length and with a wingspan of forty feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing. Here was the first extensive combat application of Stealth technology. And it was devastating.

Radar has been in use since the 1930s and was essential to the Allies in World War II, when American investment in radar exceeded that in the Manhattan Project. The atom bomb ended the war, conventional wisdom has it, but radar won it. That experience also raised a question: could a plane be developed that was invisible to radar? That question, and the seemingly impossible feat of physics and engineering behind it, took on increasing urgency during the Cold War.

Combining nail-biting narrative, incisive explanation of the science and technology involved, and indelible portraits of unforgettable characters, Stealth immerses readers in the story of an innovation with revolutionary implications for modern warfare.

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About David de Vries

David de Vries, an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator and veteran stage actor and director, spent three years in the cast of Wicked and was the last Lumiere in the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast. He has also appeared in numerous films and voiced commercial campaigns for companies large and small, including American Express, AT&T, UPS, Motorola, Georgia-Pacific, Delta Airlines, Coca Cola, and Ford, among others. He can be seen in a number of feature films, including The Founder, The Accountant, Captain America: Civil War, and Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. On television, his credits include House of Cards, Nashville, and Halt and Catch Fire.