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Testing Death: Hughes Aircraft Test Pilots and Cold War Weaponry

Testing Death: Hughes Aircraft Test Pilots and Cold War Weaponry Hard cover - 2006

by George Marrett

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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; In 1969, after his return from Vietnam, George Marrett took a job as a test pilot at Hughes Aircraft. By the 1950s, Hughes Aircraft built airborne radar and missiles for all of the Air Force interceptors stationed on the East and West C
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  • Title Testing Death: Hughes Aircraft Test Pilots and Cold War Weaponry
  • Author George Marrett
  • Binding Hard Cover
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Praeger, Westport, Connecticut
  • Date 2006-05-01
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780275990664_pod
  • ISBN 9780275990664 / 0275990664
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.54 x 6.54 x 0.9 in (24.23 x 16.61 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
  • Library of Congress subjects Marrett, George J, Test pilots - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006006631
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Scitech Book News, 09/01/2006, Page 148

About the author

George J. Marrett served in the U.S. Air Force and flew the F-86L SabreJet, the F-101B Voodoo, and the Douglas A-1 Skyraider, this last as a Sandy rescue pilot in the 602nd Fighter Squadron (Commando) in Thailand, completing 188 combat missions in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Currently, he flies his 1945 Stinson L-5E Sentinel for air shows. He is the author of Cheating Death: Combat Air Rescues in Vietnam and Laos and Howard Hughes: Aviator.

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