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Whistling Death : The Test Pilot's Story of the F4U Corsair
by Guyton, Boone T
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Black cloth spine/green boards/Price Clipped Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0517575264
- ISBN 13
- 9780517575260
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Orion Books, 1990. Fine condition in bright, shiny Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Illustrated with 16 pages of photos. Four Appendices. Specifications and Production. F4U Checklist. The Fighter Conference in 1944, with comments from attendees. Bibliography. Index. "First Edition" is so stated; with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "WHISTLING DEATH is the true story, by the test pilot, of the rush to produce the Corsair, the Navy fighter that brought America air superiority over the Japanese Zero in World War II. Here is the crash program -- complete with crash landings -- powered by the dedicated men and women of the home front who designed and built this revolutionary, tide-turning airplane... Boone T. Guyton, an experimental test pilot at Chance Vought during and after World War II, flew 105 types of aircraft in 45 years as a pilot. Keywords: World War 2 Fighter planes. Aviation history. . First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth spine/green boards/Price Clipped Dust Jacket. 8vo. xvi, 272pp..
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- Title
- Whistling Death : The Test Pilot's Story of the F4U Corsair
- Author
- Guyton, Boone T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Black cloth spine/green boards
- Jacket Condition
- Price Clipped Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0517575264
- ISBN 13
- 9780517575260
- Publisher
- Orion Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- World War 2 Fighter planes. Aviation history.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; Aviation / Aeronautics / Space Travel;
- Size
- 8vo. xvi, 272pp.
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