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4 books mention ‘Test Pilot’.
Background information on the flying life of the world's premiere test pilot.
Aviation Biography · 56 pages · 31 January 2018£7.54Hanna Reitsch and her test flights on the FA-61 are included.
Helicopter History · 219 pages · 15 September 2014£12.89…Force Canberra flight over Kapustin Yar, the Soviet rocket test site, in 1953 and an explanation of what "Operation Robin" was.
Jet Age Aviation · 302 pages · 11 April 2022 · Volume 3 of 3, Clydeside Aviation£12.94One of her instructor's was the celebrated test-pilot Eric "Winkle" Brown.
Naval Aviation · 175 pages · 15 February 2017£12.93
Historical articles (8)
- Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown: Test Pilot, Carrier Landings and the Records That Still Stand
Captain Eric Winkle Brown flew 487 aircraft types and logged 2,407 carrier landings. Inside his records, the first jet deck landing and the steam catapult.
- The Luftwaffe in 1945: Jets, Fuel, Pilots and the Final Collapse
How the Luftwaffe collapsed in its final year: Me 262 jets grounded for fuel, synthetic oil output destroyed, and a pilot force gutted by undertraining.
- Messerschmitt Me 262: The First Operational Jet Fighter, 1944-1945
The Messerschmitt Me 262 was the first operational jet fighter, entering Luftwaffe service in 1944. Development, combat record, and why it came too late.
- North American F-86 Sabre: The RAF's Cold War Swept-Wing Fighter
How the Canadair-built F-86 Sabre armed RAF squadrons in 1950s NATO Germany. Korea, MiG Alley and the Bechers Brook ferry flights explained.
- HMS Argus: Beardmore's Flat-Deck Aircraft Carrier and the Making of Naval Aviation
A guide to HMS Argus: her Dalmuir conversion from Conte Rosso, early deck flying, wartime service, and the 175-page illustrated Charles E. MacKay study.
- The Fedden Mission to Germany, 1945: Inside the Defeated German Aircraft Industry
Roy Fedden's May-July 1945 mission to inspect defeated Germany's jet engines, wind tunnels, Nordhausen underground plants and swept-wing research.
- From Cierva and the Weir W5 to the Bristol Sycamore: Early British Helicopter Development
Early helicopter history from the Denny Mumford helicopter and Cierva autogiros to the Weir W5, Cierva Air Horse, Sikorsky Hoverfly and Bristol Sycamore.
- Dieter Dengler Biography: Skyraider 04 Down and the Laos Escape, 1966
Dieter Dengler biography: 1966 shoot-down and escape from Laos, Attack Squadron VA-145 on USS Ranger (CV-61), Douglas A-1 Skyraider and CIA reports.