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India imports every jet engine it flies. Every single one.

Harish Rao has known this since he was old enough to care about things that mattered. He is twenty-two years old, suspended from college for drunkenly critiquing Keynesian economics in a macroeconomics lecture, and the jet engine obsession has always been there - in the back of every conversation, the underside of every ambition, the one thing nobody around him has ever taken seriously.

Especially Diya Sharma. Who calls him naive. Who calls him a shadow of his father. Who says it the way only someone who knows you well enough can - with the precision of a blade finding the exact gap in the armour.

He proves her wrong the only way that counts. He starts building.

Wing Engines begins in a rented shed in Pune with a retired DERA scientist, a secondhand CMM, and a patent application that the established players would prefer never to exist. What Harish and Dr. Subramaniam have discovered - a principle of combustion geometry that makes turbine blades run cooler, longer, and fifteen to twenty percent more efficient - is either the breakthrough that rewrites the Indian aerospace industry, or bait in a trap set by men who have been playing this game since before Harish was born.

Because brilliant and prepared are not the same thing. The multinationals whose engines power every Indian runway are watching. Their term sheets are generous. Their lawyers are better. And a twenty-two-year-old who has never been beaten doesn't always recognise a loss until it's already signed and countersigned.

From a rented shed to Zurich boardrooms. From superalloy coupons measured in microns to the Nasadiya Sukta. From a boy everyone mistook for his father's money to a man building something his father never imagined.

The question isn't whether India can make a jet engine. The question is whether Harish Rao can grow up fast enough to own it when it flies.

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: WINGSPAN
• Podnázev: A Novel of Ambition, Aerospace, and Indian Industry
• Autor: R. SHANKAR
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 304
• EAN: 9798251199703
• ID: 51443972
• Nakladatelství: Independently published
• Hmotnost: 411 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 16 mm
• Datum vydání: 08. March 2026

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