Test pilots: The frontiersmen of flight

By Richard P. Hallion

Book Overview

"If you really wish to learn" wrote Wilbur Wright, "you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual trial". And even before the Wright Flyer took off on its history-making... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874745497
• ISBN13: 9780874745498
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A great aviation history book!

Richard P. Hallion describes here the saga of aviation and flight test from the "tower jumpers", as monk Eilmer adventure (year 1.000) to Challenger and Voyager. The foreword from astronaut Michael Collins is great!