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Testing Death: Hughes Aircraft Test Pilots and Cold War Weaponry
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781591145127
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Testing Death : Hughes Aircraft Test Pilots and Cold War Weaponry
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Publisher
- Naval Institute Press
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Transportation, History
- Topic
- General, Aviation / Piloting & Flight Instruction, Military / Aviation
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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In 1969, after his return from Vietnam, George Marrett took a job as a test pilot at Hughes Aircraft. For twenty years, he tested the most sophisticated airborne radar and missiles ever designed for advanced Navy and Air Force aircraft. Marrett's masterful command of storytelling puts the reader in the cockpit during the F-15, F-16, and F-18 weapons systems flyoff, as well as during the firing of a Mach 3 Phoenix missile from an F-14A Tomcat at a Soviet MiG Foxbat target. In addition to the weaponry, Marrett relives stories of espionage, deadly crashes, and the development of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber radar. He combines the thrill of test flying with the pathos, humor, and tragedy that is the everyday life of a test pilot, showing how the Cold War was actually won in the skies above Southern California. The background to Marrett's tale is the story of Hughes Aircraft. While Howard Hughes's huge and unwieldy Spruce Goose never made it into World War II, the Radio Department he started grew to become the electronics giant Hughes Aircraft Company. By the 1950s, Hughes Aircraft built airborne radar and missiles for all of the Air Force interceptors stationed on the East and West Coasts and along the border with Canada to defend the United States from Soviet bombers. In the years that followed, the company built airborne radar for the Navy F-14A Tomcat, the Air Force F-15A Eagle, the Navy F-18A Hornet and the B-2 stealth bomber. They also built the Navy air-to-air AIM-54 Phenix and the Air Force air-to-ground AGM-65 Maverick missiles. These advanced electronic weapons were developed and fielded during President Reagan's massive buildup of military might. Even though Hughes himself did not live to see the Berlin Wall fall in 1989, the company he built made an essential contribution to the collapse of communism.
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Publisher
Naval Institute Press
ISBN-10
1591145120
ISBN-13
9781591145127
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66019182
Product Key Features
Book Title
Testing Death : Hughes Aircraft Test Pilots and Cold War Weaponry
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Aviation / Piloting & Flight Instruction, Military / Aviation
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Transportation, History
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.9in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tl540.M3485 2008
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2008-005117
Dewey Decimal
623.74/64092 B
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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