num_pages: 347
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: Test pilots: The frontiersmen of flight
publisher: Doubleday