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Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base
Contrails Over the Mojave The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base
Author: George J. Marrett
In Contrails over the Mojave, Marrett takes off where author 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 sp...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781591145110
ISBN-10: 1591145112
Publication Date: 3/3/2008
Pages: 264
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Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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