Cold War Test Pilot Surviving Crash Landings and Emergency Ejections From Fast - Jets to Heavy Multi - Engine Aircraft
Cold War Test Pilot Surviving Crash Landings and Emergency Ejections From Fast - Jets to Heavy Multi - Engine Aircraft | 21.17 MB
Title: Cold War Test Pilot Surviving Crash Landings and Emergency Ejections From Fast - Jets to Heavy Multi - Engine Aircraft
Author: Ron Burrows
Category: Biography & Memoir, Historical
Language: English | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1399090747
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A chief test pilot recounts his hair-raising experiences with the RAF in this detailed and often-witty memoir. Includes photos. The Falkland Islands had been invaded and a Task Force was already steaming south at full speed. On board the carriers were the Harriers that would provide essential aerial cover for the British troops and ships sent to recapture the islands. They would be entering particularly hostile territory, and the type's capabilities urgently needed to be expanded and proved. This was a job that Ron Burrows and the test pilots of his elite Fighter Test Squadron at Boscombe Down were ready to take on. From the 1960s to the 1990s, Ron test-flew all the RAF's fast-jets—in the process of which he survived two crash landings and two emergency ejections, as well as numerous other close shaves. A master of his craft, he rose to become the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment's chief test pilot, and this is his remarkable story. With four test-flying tours...
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A chief test pilot recounts his hair-raising experiences with the RAF in this detailed and often-witty memoir. Includes photos. The Falkland Islands had been invaded and a Task Force was already steaming south at full speed. On board the carriers were the Harriers that would provide essential aerial cover for the British troops and ships sent to recapture the islands. They would be entering particularly hostile territory, and the type's capabilities urgently needed to be expanded and proved. This was a job that Ron Burrows and the test pilots of his elite Fighter Test Squadron at Boscombe Down were ready to take on. From the 1960s to the 1990s, Ron test-flew all the RAF's fast-jets—in the process of which he survived two crash landings and two emergency ejections, as well as numerous other close shaves. A master of his craft, he rose to become the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment's chief test pilot, and this is his remarkable story. With four test-flying tours...
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