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(More customer reviews)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!
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_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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