Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen of Flight, Revised Edition - Softcover

Hallion, Richard P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874745497 ISBN 13: 9780874745498

Publisher: Smithsonian Books, 1988

Synopsis

"If you really wish to learn" wrote Wilbur Wright, "you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual trial". And even before the Wright Flyer took off on its history-making first flight, intrepid researchers had been testing many different flying machines: the hapless tower jumpers of the Dark Ages; the balloonist of the eighteenth century; the glider builders of the nineteenth. In Test Pilots, Richard P. Hallion chronicles the history of test pilots from these early explorers to today's military men.

About this title

Synopsis:

This revised edition of the 1981 original now includes the Challenger and Voyager missions. A fascinating recounting of the development of modern aircraft and the test pilots who flew them. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About the Author:

Richard P. Hallion, Air Force Historian, directs the worldwide Air Force historical and museum programs. An internationally recognized aerospace historian, he has written or edited thirteen other books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Smithsonian Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0874745497
• ISBN 13: 9780874745498
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 462