Testing Death: Hughes Aircraft Test Pilots and Cold War Weaponry
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In 1969, after his return from Vietnam, George Marrett took a job as a test pilot at Hughes Aircraft. For twenty years, he tested the most sophisticated airborne radar and missiles ever designed for advanced Navy and Air Force aircraft. Marrett's masterful command of storytelling puts the reader in the cockpit during the F-15, F-16, and F-18 weapons systems flyoff, as well as during the firing of a Mach 3 Phoenix missile from an F-14A Tomcat at...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0275990664
ISBN13:9780275990664
Release Date:May 2006
Publisher:Praeger
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"
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