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中图分类法:
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E712.54 版次： |
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著者:
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Marrett, George J. |
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题名:
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Contrails over the Mojave : [ the golden age of jet flight testing at Edwards Air Force Base /] / , |
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载体形态:
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xviii, 230 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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内容提要:
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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. |
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主题词:
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Airplanes, Military California. |
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主题词:
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Airplanes Flight testing 20th century. California |
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主题词:
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Aeronautics Research 20th century. United States |
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主题词:
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Aeronautics, Military Research 20th century. United States |