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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 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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781612514277
ISBN-10: 1612514278
Publication Date: 7/15/2014
Pages: 272
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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