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Mission to mach 2 : a fighter pilot's memoir of supersonic flight / Robert Earl Haney with Lee Courtnage.
- Title
- Mission to mach 2 : a fighter pilot's memoir of supersonic flight / Robert Earl Haney with Lee Courtnage.
- Author
- Haney, Robert Earl, 1932-
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | UG626.2.H34 A3 2011 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Courtnage, Lee.
- Description
- viii, 220 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "As pilots gradually learned to navigate speeds up to Mach II, their courage and stamina were tested to the limit. This engaging memoir relays the life story of a famed pilot who flew supersonic jets for the United States Air Force during the Cold War through Vietnam and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Breaking the sound barrier -- My first mentors -- Aviation cadet : jet age training -- Supersonic flight : the F-86 -- Fighter jet nuclear capability -- Flight test -- Return to tactical fighters -- USAF Thunderbirds -- Southeast Asian war -- Fighter weapons school : terminal guided weapons -- Air war college and test and evaluation -- Operational testing -- Field commander -- The last day.
- ISBN
- 9780786463169 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786463163 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011011075
- OCLC
- 664656872
- SCSB-11945186
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library