When I Consider the Heavens - Softcover

Robert E. Hage

9780966480368: When I Consider the Heavens

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966480368 ISBN 13: 9780966480368

Publisher: Fair Havens Publications, 2003

BOB HAGE, RETIRED BOEING/MCDONNEL DOUGLAS EXECUTIVE, REVEALS STRIKING DETAILS OF 50-YEAR CAREER IN THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY

As a scientist, aircraft design engineer, aviation consultant and major in the U.S. Air Force, Bob Hage made a career taming the skies via aerospace technology. He co-authored the textbook, "Airplane Performance, Stability and Control," which is still in print and use after 50 years—without revision. While at Boeing, Hage authored "Jet Propulsion in Commercial Air Transportation," pioneering the idea that jet-powered transport planes would be superior to propeller-driven transports. His greatest achievement is dependence on the Word of God and prayer as a dynamic for living, which has given him personal performance, stability and control.

He tells the story of his romance with the heavens as well as the spiritual development of others within his circle of influence. A single sortie it’s not. The colorful individuals who became a part of his life story are like integral parts of an aircraft, thrusting this story to great heights. A partial list includes James S. McDonnell (founder and former president of McDonnell Aircraft Corp.), Sanford McDonnell (past president of McDonnell Corp.), Eddie Rickenbacker (World War I flying ace and former president, Eastern Airlines), Bill Allen (former president, Boeing Corp.), and Juan Trippe (founder, Pan American Airlines), Donald Douglas (founder, Douglas Aircraft Co.) Fritz Phillips (Phillips Corp.), Francis Schaeffer (founder of L’Abri), and Lorne Sanny (President Emeritus, The Navigators.

You will enjoy reading about his military service at the Pentagon, the fierce competition between leading aircraft companies, and his global travels. Also, in a time of corporate scandals, it is refreshing to read about the high ethical standards that made his career and the corporations he worked for successful. Most important, you will be fascinated by the way God worked through a simple cleaning lady as well as a private conference with Francis Schaeffer in the Swiss Alps to bring Bob to faith in Christ.

When I Consider the Heavens will interest the engineer, the businessperson, the historian, and those who love a good autobiography. Particularly inspiring is the way Bob Hage freely opens his heart for all to see that Jesus Christ is the navigator of his life and career.

The book includes 16 photographs from the Boeing Corp. archives, most in color, tracing aviation’s history.

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From the Author:

Gazing up at the starry heavens and wondering how they all began occupied my earliest boyhood speculations about the origin and immensity of the universe. Like Huckleberry Finn in Mark Twain's classic 1884 novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, I observed and questioned: "We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened."

This autobiography attempts to answer Huck and all who might still be wondering, "about whether they was made, or only just happened," and what we’re doing about it.

From the Inside Flap:

"Bob Hage’s career covered one of the most exciting periods in aerospace history: from prop aircraft to jets to supersonic transports to unmanned satellites to astronauts on the moon to space stations and beyond. And while he participated in all of those impressive developments, he never faltered in his spiritual quest.

While Bob has spent most of his life considering the heavens from an aerospace engineering perspective, he has also been searching the heavens for answers to spiritual questions. He wanted to know how he came to be here on earth and for what purpose. Shortly after coming to McDonnell Aircraft he found the key to those answers when he invited Jesus Christ into his life. That commitment changed his life dramatically, as you will learn by reading this fascinating book."
Sandy McDonnell
President Emeritus, McDonnell Douglas Corp.

"Bob Hage has written a captivating book about his experiences in the aerospace industry...He tells about his fascination with the universe and how that led him to a belief in God as its Creator. That in turn led him to a personal relationship with the Son of God."
Lorne Sanny
Past President, The Navigators

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