Quick and the Dead
Publisher: Grub Street
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781908117274
Subjects: Airplanes, flight testing; Aeronautics, great britain
Description: "Written in 1956 but still relevant and throught-provoking today, this book is an absolute revelation on test flying with the British aircraft organisations and manufacturers in the 1950s. Written with refreshing frankness and truth - which allegedly finally cost him his job at the Daily Express - this account details what really went on behind the scenes in the defence world. Waterton pulls no punches in recounting the non-cooperation of civil servants in improving/altering recognised faults (often minor) when developing aircraft - to the cost of lives lost. This is an astonishing insight into the workings of the British aircraft industry." --