Test Pilots - Riding the Dragon
Climb into the cockpit with the truly dedicated flyers - from all time
Caidin, Martin
Bantam Air & Space Series 21
In the early days, every man who got a machine off the ground was a test pilot...every flight an adventure - because no one knew how to fly.
And later, every advance in power, safety and reliability was won by pilots who tested again and again the limits of the envelope...
"George Smith woke up in a hospital. He was alive. He had ejected from an F-100A. And in the long run, certainly it appears best of all for George Smith that the incredible violence of what followed was blanked from mind and memory.
"The dive started at 35,000 feet.
"George Smith blew himself out of the deathship at an altitude of 6,500 feet.
'At that moment the F-100A was hurtling downward vertically at 1,140 feet every second - better than a mile in five seconds. In familiar terms his speed at that instant was 777 miles per hour, and he was in the dense air of Iow altitude - he lived to fly again."
Softcover
360 Seiten / pages
some illustrations
very good condition
New York - Toronto - London - Sydney - Auckland - 1992 - Bantam Books
Art.Nr. 20697
