Training the Right Stuff: The Aircraft That Produced America's Jet Pilots

by Tommy H. Thomason and Mark A. Frankel

A comprehensive study of the training aircraft used to transition the United States military into the jet age. At the end of World War II, high-performance jets with unfamiliar operating characteristics were replacing propeller-driven airplanes. As accident rates soared, the Air Force and Navy recognized the need to develop new trainers to introduce fledgling as well as experienced pilots to jet flight. The first step occurred in 1948, when a two-seat...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764350307
• ISBN13: 9780764350306
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 4.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.9" x 11.2"