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X-Plane Crashes
michele- M1.0
- Numero di messaggi : 1046
Data d'iscrizione : 29.08.08
Località : Reggio Emilia
michele- M1.0
- Numero di messaggi : 1046
Data d'iscrizione : 29.08.08
Località : Reggio Emilia
Experimental test flying is like no other type of aviation, for everything ever done to, with, or by an airplane had to be accomplished for the very first time by someone called a test pilot.
In the early days of the supersonic era immediately following World War II, daring and courageous men did things in airplanes that had never been done before while reaching for
speed and altitudes that were pure science fiction only several years earlier, and many of these men perished in the process while ground-bound engineers learned what worked and what didn’t.
By comparison, in the modern digital age, these sobering lesson can be learned in the warm comfort of a computer lab or simulator, but make no mistake-today's safe and reliable aircraft with their amazingly impressive safety records are indeed the direct result of the sacrifices made by these brave test pilots from an earlier time.
Thankfully, not all of the crashes covered here ended with the loss of human life, but there were valuable lessons learned nevertheless.
This book takes you to the very last places that many of the world's most pioneering airplanes ever touched the earth, and in many cases employs both archival and modern photography to show the reader these locations as they appeared immediately after the crash, and then as they look today.
Additionally, comprehensive appendices accompany these stories containing a vast storehouse of information on each and every accident that took place in the barren stretches of the Mojave and beyond, from 1930 to the present.
With deep reverence and respect for the sanctity and history of these sites as well as the people being memorialized, authors Peter W. Merlin and Tony Moore better known today as the
X-Hunters-carefully combed the ground for evidence of what happened in those final fateful
seconds of flight that ended there decades ago.
In so doing, they discovered valuable and compelling pieces of aeronautical puzzles that, when fully assembled, represented some of the most exotic and revolutionary aircraft ever flown.
In the early days of the supersonic era immediately following World War II, daring and courageous men did things in airplanes that had never been done before while reaching for
speed and altitudes that were pure science fiction only several years earlier, and many of these men perished in the process while ground-bound engineers learned what worked and what didn’t.
By comparison, in the modern digital age, these sobering lesson can be learned in the warm comfort of a computer lab or simulator, but make no mistake-today's safe and reliable aircraft with their amazingly impressive safety records are indeed the direct result of the sacrifices made by these brave test pilots from an earlier time.
Thankfully, not all of the crashes covered here ended with the loss of human life, but there were valuable lessons learned nevertheless.
This book takes you to the very last places that many of the world's most pioneering airplanes ever touched the earth, and in many cases employs both archival and modern photography to show the reader these locations as they appeared immediately after the crash, and then as they look today.
Additionally, comprehensive appendices accompany these stories containing a vast storehouse of information on each and every accident that took place in the barren stretches of the Mojave and beyond, from 1930 to the present.
With deep reverence and respect for the sanctity and history of these sites as well as the people being memorialized, authors Peter W. Merlin and Tony Moore better known today as the
X-Hunters-carefully combed the ground for evidence of what happened in those final fateful
seconds of flight that ended there decades ago.
In so doing, they discovered valuable and compelling pieces of aeronautical puzzles that, when fully assembled, represented some of the most exotic and revolutionary aircraft ever flown.