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Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen of Flight

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If you really wish to learn wrote Wilbur Wright, you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual trial. And even before the Wright Flyer took off on its history-making first flight, intrepid researchers had been testing many different flying machines: the hapless tower jumpers of the Dark Ages; the balloonist of the eighteenth century; the glider builders of the nineteenth. In Test Pilots, Richard P. Hallion chronicles the history of test pilots from these early explorers to today's military men.

Language: English

Pages: 347

Format: Unknown Binding

Publisher: Doubleday Books

Release: January 01, 1981

ISBN: 0385154690

ISBN 13: 9780385154697

Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen of Flight

Richard P. Hallion

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Language: English

Pages: 347

Format: Unknown Binding

Publisher: Doubleday Books

Release: January 01, 1981

ISBN: 0385154690

ISBN 13: 9780385154697

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