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Contrails over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base Paperback - 2014
by Marrett, George J
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- Title Contrails over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base
- Author Marrett, George J
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher US Naval Institute Press
- Date 2014-07-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1612514278.G
- ISBN 9781612514277 / 1612514278
- Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Library of Congress subjects Aeronautics, Military - Research - United, Airplanes, Military - California - Flight
- Dewey Decimal Code 623.746
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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. Marrett describes life as a space cadet experiencing fifteen 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 Operations, where he flew the latest fighter aircraft and chased other test aircraft as they set world speed and altitude records.