Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen of Flight, Revised Edition

Author:   Richard P. Hallion ,  Michael Collins ,  Michael Collins
Publisher:   Smithsonian Books
Edition:   Revised edition
ISBN:  

9780874745498


Pages:   462
Publication Date:   17 May 1988
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained


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"""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."

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Author:   Richard P. Hallion ,  Michael Collins ,  Michael Collins
Publisher:   Smithsonian Books
Imprint:   Smithsonian Books
Edition:   Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.646kg
ISBN:  

9780874745498


ISBN 10:   0874745497
Pages:   462
Publication Date:   17 May 1988
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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Like The Right Stuff, Test Pilots belongs on every pilot's bookshelf--Steven L. Thompson Aircraft Owners And Pilots Association Magazine


Like The Right Stuff, Test Pilots belongs on every pilot's bookshelf--Steven L. Thompson Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Magazine


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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.

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