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Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base
George J. Marrett
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Description for Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base
Paperback. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JWMV3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 376.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Annopolis, United States
ISBN
9781612514277
SKU
V9781612514277
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About George J. Marrett
George J. Marrett flew 188 missions in the Douglas A-1 Skyraider in Vietnam and tested more than forty types of military aircraft in twenty-five years as a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force and Hughes Aircraft Company. He is a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and the Board of Trustees, National Test Pilot School, Mojave, California, ... Read more
Reviews for Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base
George Marrett is that rare individual who is not only an expert on his subject
from flying experimental jets to training to be an astronaut
but he's also a wonderfully talented and intuitive writer who will keep you up late at night with the power of his words."
Wayman Dunlap, editor, Pacific Flyer Newspapers, Inc. "Contrails over the Mojave is a major ... Read more
from flying experimental jets to training to be an astronaut
but he's also a wonderfully talented and intuitive writer who will keep you up late at night with the power of his words."
Wayman Dunlap, editor, Pacific Flyer Newspapers, Inc. "Contrails over the Mojave is a major ... Read more