Test Pilots.

Published by New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., (). The Watts Aerospace Library., 1962

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Octavo, gray cloth (hardcover), ix, 256 pp. Very Good, with former-owner bookplate and light edgewear; in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: Danger rides in the cockpit with every test pilot. He is flying a new airplane or using new equipment, not knowing what will happen under the stress of flight. His job is to make sure that everything is right before other, less experienced, pilots take over. Here is a collection of dramatic, exciting stories about the work of these men which goes back to the very beginnings of aviation. Orville Wright tells how he made his historic flight at Kitty Hawk. An Army test pilot describes what happened when he flew over seven miles high in 1921. We ride with the first pilot to travel faster than 400 miles an hour and fly in a "souped up" plane at the National Air Races. The stories of the men who tested the planes of World War II and those who were the first to fly the new jets when the war was over are all here. Finally, there are the exciting adventures of the new breed of test pilot, the men who are at once expert aeronautical engineers and skillful pilots and who do their work high above the earth or in space itself. Major Gene Gurney, who has himself been a test pilot, has collected the very best stories about the dedicated flyers who have been responsible for so much of the progress of aviation. This is a history of aviation told in the terms of the men who made it. Aviation, Pilot Biography, Aircraft, Aeroplanes, Air Planes, Airplanes, Engineering, Flight. yslic. …

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Title
Test Pilots.
Author
Gurney, Lt. Col. Gene, U.S.A.F.; Editor.
Publisher
New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., (). The Watts Aerospace Library.
Publication year
1962
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Dust Jacket Included
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Hardcover

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