Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:US Naval Institute PressISBN-13:9781612514277ISBN-10:1612514278UPC:9781612514277Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, United StatesBook Topic:Aviation & Space, United States, 20th CenturySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SC1WCJ6PJ4
Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base
In Contrails over the Mojave George Marrett takes off where Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff ended in 1963. Marrett started the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB only two weeks after the school's commander, Col. Chuck Yeager, ejected from a Lockheed NF-104 trying to set a world altitude record. He describes life as a space cadet experiencing 15 Gs in a human centrifuge, zero-G maneuvers in a...
Language:EnglishPublisher:US Naval Institute PressISBN-13:9781612514277ISBN-10:1612514278UPC:9781612514277Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, United StatesBook Topic:Aviation & Space, United States, 20th CenturySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SC1WCJ6PJ4
Marrett, George J.: - George J. Marrett flew 188 missions in the Douglas A-1 Skyraider in Vietnam and tested more than forty types of military aircraft in twenty-five years as a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force and Hughes Aircraft Company. He is a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and the Board of Trustees, National Test Pilot School, Mojave, California.
Marrett is also the...
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