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Chris Taylor has had a very successful career as a Royal Navy officer, helicopter pilot, test pilot, instructor and as an internationally acclaimed civil certif
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Pages: 294
Authors: Eric Brown
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-18 - Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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The autobiography of one of the greatest pilots in history. In 1939 Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany, and the first he kne
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Authors: Gilliland|Keith Dunnavant Bob Gilliland (Dunnavant)
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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-
Higher and Faster
Language: en
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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
A Wasp Among Eagles
Language: en
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Authors: Ann Carl
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Before World War II most Americans did not believe that the average woman could fly professionally, but during the war more than a thousand women pilots proved