Wild Blue: Stories of Survival from Air and Space (Adrenaline) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560252510 ISBN 13: 9781560252511

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 1999

Synopsis

Wild Blue collects the most gripping accounts of what some would call the greatest achievement of the century: controlled flight. Charles Lindbergh takes readers wing-walking in a barnstorming biplane; Ernest K. Gann describes how the nocturnal spell of copiloting a DC-2 at night is broken by the unexpected terror of ice on its wings; a young ace named Chuck Yeager shatters the sound barrier and then loses consciousness in a violently tumbling rocket-plane. From the soaring to the harrowing, from flying a Piper Cub over the Rockies at the age of 14 to a nighttime carrier approach with an anxious, rusty lieutenant, Wild Blue puts readers right in the cockpit.

About this title

About the Author:

David Fisher has written more than 40 books, including the number-one bestseller Gracie: A Love Story and The Umpire Strikes Back. William Garvey, a contributing editor of Flying magazine, writes regularly for Smithsonian Air and Space and other aviation publications. Clint Willis is series editor of the Adrenaline books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1560252510
• ISBN 13: 9781560252511
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356
• Editor: Fisher David, Garvey William, Editors