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Tex Johnston
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: A. M. "Tex" Johnston
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-02 - Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

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One of America's most daring and accomplished test pilots, Tex Johnston flew the first US jet airplanes and, in a career spanning the 1930s through the 1970s, h
Speed
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Gilliland|Keith Dunnavant Bob Gilliland (Dunnavant)
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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On December 22, 1964, at a small, closely guarded airstrip in the desert town of Palmdale, California, Lockheed test pilot Bob Gilliland stepped into a strange-
Luftwaffe Test Pilot
Language: da
Pages: 216
Authors: Hans-Werner Lerche
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher:

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Afprøvning af erobrede flytyper (Beuteflugzeugen) i det tidligere Luftwaffen-Testzentrum, Rechlin, under 2. verdenskrig. Forfatteren virkede endvidere som test
Higher and Faster
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Robert M. White
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-10 - Publisher: McFarland

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In 1961, pilot Robert M. White flew a hypersonic rocket-powered airplane six times faster than the speed of sound and higher than 300,000 feet above the Earth's
Stanley H. Kaplan, Test Pilot
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Stanley Henry Kaplan
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher:

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Stanley H. Kaplan's uniquely effective teaching methods and his curiosity about a mysterious new test caused his tutoring business to grow at breathtaking speed