Title: Roaring Thunder
Subtitle: A Novel of the Jet Age
First published: 2006
Description: "The sensational story of the jet age of aviation revolves around remarkable geniuses: Sir Frank Whittle, the British inventor of the jet engine; Hans von Ohain, a German jet-engine designer who came to work for the U.S. government; famed aeronautical engineer Kelly Johnson; the daring test pilot Tex Johnston; and many more, brilliant men who conceived extraordinary early airplanes and had the courage to fly them to new horizons."--Jacket.
Subjects: Test pilots in fiction, Test pilots, Inventors in fiction, Johnson, Clarence L. in fiction, Aeronautical engineers in fiction, Whittle, Frank, in fiction, Fiction, Johnston, A. M. in fiction, Jet planes, Ohain, Hans von, in fiction, Aircraft industry in fiction, Aeronautical engineers, Jet planes in fiction, Aircraft industry, Inventors, Fiction, historical, general
People: Clarence L. Johnson, A. M. Johnston, Hans von Ohain (1911-), Frank Whittle Sir (1907-)
LC classification: PS3552.O937 R63 2006