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Michael Collins
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TEST PILOTS : The Frontiersmen of Flight |
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English |
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Paperback |
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347 |
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1988-05-17 |
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0874745497 |
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Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press |
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1.65 pounds |
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5.93 x 1.12 x 8.86 inches |
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Updated |
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Product Description
"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 first flight, intrepid researchers had been testing many different flying machines: the hapless tower jumpers of the Dark Ages; the balloonist of the eighteenth century; the glider builders of the nineteenth. In Test Pilots, Richard P. Hallion chronicles the history of test pilots from these early explorers to today's military men.
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