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Author Marrett, George J.

Title Contrails over the Mojave : the golden age of jet flight testing at Edwards Air Force Base / George J. Marrett.

Publication Info. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [2008]
©2008

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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.
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Subject Airplanes, Military -- California -- Flight testing.
Airplanes, Military.
California.
Flight testing.
Edwards Air Force Base (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
Airplanes -- California -- Flight testing -- History -- 20th century.
Airplanes.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Aeronautics -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Aeronautics -- Research.
United States.
Aeronautics, Military -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Aeronautics, Military -- Research.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Marrett, George J. Contrails over the Mojave 9781591145110 (DLC) 2007045302 (OCoLC)180690042
ISBN 9781612514260 (electronic book)
161251426X (electronic book)
9781591145110
1591145112
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