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Wild Blue: Stories of Survival from Air and Space

David Fisher

Wild Blue collects the most gripping accounts of what some would call the greatest achievement of the century: controlled flight. Charles Lindbergh takes readers wing-walking in a barnstorming biplane; Ernest K. Gann describes how the nocturnal spell of copiloting a DC-2 at night is broken by the unexpected terror of ice on its wings; a young ace named Chuck Yeager shatters the sound barrier and then loses consciousness in a violently tumbling rocket-plane. From the soaring to the harrowing, from flying a Piper Cub over the Rockies at the age of 14 to a nighttime carrier approach with an anxious, rusty lieutenant, Wild Blue puts readers right in the cockpit.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Publish Date: Dec 31st, 1999
  • Pages: 360
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.99in - 6.16in - 1.11in - 1.13lb
  • EAN: 9781560252511
  • Categories: Aviation - History