Description: Contrails over the Mojave : The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base, Paperback by Marrett, George J., ISBN 1612514278, ISBN-13 9781612514277, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK In Contrails over the Mojave George Marrett takes off where Tom Wolfes The Right Stuff ended in 1963. Marrett started the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB only two weeks after the schools 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 Yeagers "Charm School," he was assigned to the Fighter Branch of Flight Test Operations, where he flew the latest fighter aircraft and chased other test aircraft as they set world speed and altitude records.
Marrett takes readers into the cockpit as he "goes vertical" in a T-38 Talon, completes high-G maneuvers in an F-4C Phantom, and conducts wet-runway landing tests in the accident-prone F-111A Aardvark. He writes about Col. "Silver Fox" Stephens setting a world speed record in the YF-12 Blackbird and Bob Gilliland testing speed stalls in the SR-71 spy plane, but he also relives stories of crashes that killed test pilot friends. He recounts dead-sticking a T-38 to a landing on Rogers Dry Lake after a twin-engine failure and conducting dangerous tail hook barrier testing in a fighter jet without a canopy. A mysterious UFO sighting in the night sky above the Mojave Desert, known as "The Edwards Encounter," also receives Marretts attention. Whether the author is assessing a new aircrafts performance or describing the experiences of test pilots as they routinely faced the possibility of death, this look at the golden age of flight testing both thrills and informs.
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Book Title: Contrails over the Mojave : The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Contrails over the Mojave: the Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base
Language: English
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Government
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 382 g
Author: George J. Marrett
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
