Empty Towers

di William Liu (Autore)

William Liu, 2026

The people guiding every flight in America are running out, and the margin for error is shrinking with them. In the span of a few years, a midair collision over the Potomac, a radar and radio blackout at Newark, and a run of near misses on crowded runways pulled the air traffic controller shortage out of the shadows. Empty Towers takes you inside the facilities, the academies, and the midnight shifts to show how the system got so thin. You will meet controllers working six-day weeks, retirees pushed out at fifty-six, and trainees who wash out of a pipeline that filters thousands of applicants down to a few. You will see the science of fatigue on the overnight shift, the floppy disks and copper wire still holding up parts of the network, and what a shutdown does to people who must keep working without a paycheck. It also looks at what Canada and Britain chose to do differently, and what it would take to rebuild. If you fly, or if you care how America runs its critical systems, this is the book that explains what is really happening above your head.

• Autore: William Liu
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: William Liu
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237488111