Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base - Rilegato

Marrett, George J.

 
9781591145110: Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base
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ISBN 10: 1591145112 ISBN 13: 9781591145110
Casa editrice: Naval Inst Pr, 2008

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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 KC-135 "Vomit Comet," and a flight to 80,000 feet in the F-104A Starfighter. After graduating from Yeager's "Charm School," he was assigned to the Fighter Branch of Flight Test Operations, where he flew the latest fighter aircraft and chased other test aircraft as they set world speed and altitude records.

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Editore
Naval Inst Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1591145112
ISBN 13 
9781591145110
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
230
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9781612514277: Contrails over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base

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ISBN 10:  1612514278 ISBN 13:  9781612514277
Casa editrice: Naval Inst Pr, 2014
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