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Contrails Over the Mojave - the Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base by Marrett , George J.; is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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In Contrails over the Mojave George Marrett takes off where Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff ended in 1963. Marrett started the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB only two weeks after the school's commander, Col. Chuck Yeager, ejected from a Lockheed NF-104 trying to set a world altitude record. He describes life as a space cadet experiencing 15 Gs in a human centrifuge, zero-G maneuvers in a KC-135 "Vomit Comet," and a flight to 80,000 feet in the F-104A Starfighter. After graduating from Yeager's "Charm School," he was assigned to the Fighter Branch of Flight Test Opera.;Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1. Don't Kill Yourself ; 2. Chasing the Whistle ; 3. USAF Flight School ; 4. Defending the Golden Gate ; 5. Cold War ; 6. Charm School ; 7. Space Cadets ; 8. Flight Test Operations ; 9. Fighter Branch ; 10. Phantom Foibles ; 11. Metal Falling from the Sky ; Epilogue ; Acronyms and Abbreviations ; Notes ; Resources ; Index ; About the Author.

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Author
Marrett , George J.;
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9781612514260
Category
history
Subjects
History, Engineering, American Studies
Rating
4.6 / 5 (51 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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