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Higher and faster
memoir of a pioneering Air Force test pilot
by Robert M. White
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"In 1961, pilot Robert W. White flew a hypersonic rocket-powered airplane six times faster than the speed of sound and higher than 300,000 feet above the Earth. This is his story, tracing his childhood, his years as a pilot and POW during World War II, and his rise as an experimental test pilot in the Air Force"--
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United States. Air Force, United States, Test pilots, Officers, Biography, Air pilots, biography, Florida, biographyPeople
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Higher and faster: memoir of a pioneering Air Force test pilot
2010, McFarland
in English
0786449896 9780786449897
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Table of Contents
The formative years
Up in the air junior birdman
My first war
A guest of the enemy
Career management 101
A pilot's dream
A brief history lesson
The fun begins
Riding the rocket
Higher and faster
Distractions, decorations, and disaster
Goodbye Edwards, hello Bitburg
Another war
The FX program
Home again
Back to school
The last stop
Going home
Reflections.
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Includes index.
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