Test Pilots The Frontiersmen of Flight

If you really wish to learn wrote Wilbur Wright, you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by actual trial. And even before the Wright Flyer took off on its history-making first flight, intrepid researchers had been testing many different flying machines: the hapless tower jumpers of the Dark Ages; the balloonist of the eighteenth century; the glider builders of the nineteenth. In Test Pilots, Richard P. Hallion chronicles the history of test pilots from these early explorers to today's military men.Hallion, Richard P. is the author of 'Test Pilots The Frontiersmen of Flight', published 1988 under ISBN 9780874745498 and ISBN 0874745497.