Research Catalog

Title

Contrails over the Mojave : the golden age of jet flight testing at Edwards Air Force Base / George J. Marrett.

Author

Marrett, George J.

Publication

Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2008.

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Details

Description

xviii, 230 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

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 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 Yeager's?Charm School," he was assigned to the Fighter Branch of Flight Test Opera.

Subject

• Airplanes, Military > California > Flight testing
• Airplanes > California > History > 20th century
• Aeronautics > History > United States > 20th century
• Aeronautics, Military > History > United States > 20th century
• Edwards Air Force Base (Calif.) > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Don't kill yourself -- Chasing the whistle -- USAF flight school -- Defending the Golden Gate -- Cold War -- Charm school -- Space cadets -- Flight test operations -- Fighter branch -- Phantom foibles -- Metal falling from the sky.

ISBN

• 9781591145110 (alk. paper)
• 1591145112 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007045302

OCLC

180690042

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library