num_pages: 320
description: Foreword by William Randolph Hearst Jr. One of America's most daring and accomplished test pilots Johnston helped develop the jet age at Bell Aircraft and Boeing. At Bell he tested the XS-1 and at Boeing the XB-47 (the first six-jet engine bomber) the XB-52 bomber and the 707 series of jets -- including a famous barrel-roll above a crowd gathered for the Gold Cup Hydroplane Races in Seattle Wash.
language: English
title: Tex Johnston: Jet-Age Test Pilot
publisher: Smithsonian Inst Pr