How long does it take to read Airframe?
Airframe by Michael Crichton takes about 7 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 54 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1996. 431 pages, about 118,525 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 73 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Airframe is a novel by the American writer Michael Crichton, his eleventh under his own name and twenty-first overall, first published in 1996, in hardcover, by Knopf and then in 1997, as a paperback, by Ballantine Books. The plot follows Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice president at the fictional aerospace manufacturer Norton Aircraft, as she investigates an in-flight accident aboard a Norton-manufactured airliner that leaves three passengers dead and 56 injured.
Subjects: air safety, media relations, investigative journalism, human-machine interaction, Pilot-induced oscillation, type rating
