Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 230 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Don't kill yourself -- Chasing the whistle -- USAF flight school -- Defending the Golden Gate -- Cold War -- Charm school -- Space cadets -- Flight test operations -- Fighter branch -- Phantom foibles -- Metal falling from the sky. |
Summary |
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 Opera. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Airplanes, Military -- California -- Flight testing.
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Airplanes, Military. |
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California. |
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Flight testing. |
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Edwards Air Force Base (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
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Airplanes -- California -- Flight testing -- History -- 20th century.
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Airplanes. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Aeronautics -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Aeronautics -- Research. |
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United States. |
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Aeronautics, Military -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Aeronautics, Military -- Research. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Marrett, George J. Contrails over the Mojave 9781591145110 (DLC) 2007045302 (OCoLC)180690042 |
ISBN |
9781612514260 (electronic book) |
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161251426X (electronic book) |
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9781591145110 |
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1591145112 |
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9781612514277 |
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