Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base

by George J. Marrett

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1612514278

ISBN13:9781612514277

Release Date:July 2014

Publisher:US Naval Institute Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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Aviation History Military Modern (16th-21st Centuries) State & Local

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