Download or read book Riding on Air written by Jack Gieck and published by SAE International. This book was released on 1999-10-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riding on Air covers the history of air suspension, from the earliest patents in the mid-19th century to more current developments. Beginning on buses, air suspension expanded into passenger rail vehicles, only to be followed by a crashing failure on passenger cars. But after several precarious years, air suspension began to win almost universal acceptance on trucks and trailers, and then in mass transportation, eventually making a successful return to passenger cars.