Testing Time: A Study of Man and Machine in the Test Flying Era.

Published by London: Cassell, ()., 1961

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Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xi, 224 pp. Very Good+, with neat former-owner bookplate; in a Very Good+ dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: An authoritative writer on aviation provides in this book an important, carefully documented examination and re-interpretation of the role of British test pilots over the last fifty odd years, and looks forward into the future. Existing books have tended to concentrate on the specialist fliers (And, to their horror, glamorize them) or on the technicalities of their work; Testing Time is a study of the subject as a whole, in longer perspective, tracing the development of test-flying from Dunne's early experiments with a "stable flying machine" to the flight testing of the supersonic Lightning by Roland Beamont -- the sort of pilot who catches the 8.15 to work -- largely by means of devices such as auto-observers which foreshadow the fully automatic testing of the future. Aviation, British History, Aeronautics, Aircraft. bslic.

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Title
Testing Time: A Study of Man and Machine in the Test Flying Era.
Author
Smith, Constance Babington.
Publisher
London: Cassell, ().
Publication year
1961
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Dust Jacket Included
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Hardcover

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We are a family run shop that has served book lovers for nearly fifty years. We have recently moved to larger quarters in Dade City - a town in central Florida known for its antiques stores and comfortable cafes. We specialize in Florida History and Americana, but carry a broad range of general used and secondhand books, and a small gallery of prints and maps. We offer certified appraisal services, and are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, and the Florida Antiquarian Booksellers' Association. We invite you to visit our webpage: http://www.OldFloridaBookStore.com. If you're a lover of old books, you may enjoy articles we've posted to our blog: http://www.OldFloridaBookStore.blogspot.com.

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