Todays hot new prototypes! Explore the X-planes at Edwards Air Force Base, test site for the worlds advanced military fighter prototypes. This extensive color photo collection provides full details of the planes, from the days when Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier to todays hottest fighter prototypes, the YF-22 and YF-23.
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Boring,
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This review is from: X-Planes at Edwards (Enthusiast Color) (Paperback)
Despite having some nice photos (all of which have been previsouly published elsewhere), this book is basically useless if you are in search of information on the X-Planes. Exactly how anybody could make such an exciting subject boring is beyond me. I should not have been surprised given the author's track record with earlier books. If you want a good book on the X-Planes, get the book by Jay Miller. This one is simply not worth the money.
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A Great X-Plane Reference Book,
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This review is from: X-Planes at Edwards (Enthusiast Color) (Paperback)
This year I visited 5 X-Plane crash sites in the Mojave Desert. I wish I had this book before my trip as it gives me an even greater insight and respect for the those who created the X-Planes, and more importantly, the test pilots who risked their lives each time they strapped one on. Buy this book and X-Plane Crash Sites, both available at Amazon.
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It's like being there!,
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This review is from: X-Planes at Edwards (Enthusiast Color) (Paperback)
I've loved airplanes for years. Especially the X-planes. Pace's all-color book about the X-planes at Edwards was a great buy for me. Very informative and the pictures look like they're real.
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Following its rudimentary beginnings in the early 1930s, even before it was a bona fide airfield with paved runaways, the so-called jet age at Edwards began in the early 1940s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
turbofan jet engines, successful first flight, research airplane, flying surfaces, turbojet engine, first flown, gross weight, technology demonstrator, lifting bodies, nose gear, air vehicle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Air Force, North American, General Dynamics, Rogers Dry Lake, Joe Walker, Reaction Motors, United States, George Welch, New York, Secret Project, Super Sabre, Chuck Yeager, Herbst Maneuver, Rockwell-Deutsche Aerospace New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Following its rudimentary beginnings in the early 1930s, even before it was a bona fide airfield with paved runaways, the so-called jet age at Edwards began in the early 1940s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
turbofan jet engines, successful first flight, research airplane, flying surfaces, turbojet engine, first flown, gross weight, technology demonstrator, lifting bodies, nose gear, air vehicle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Air Force, North American, General Dynamics, Rogers Dry Lake, Joe Walker, Reaction Motors, United States, George Welch, New York, Secret Project, Super Sabre, Chuck Yeager, Herbst Maneuver, Rockwell-Deutsche Aerospace New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Air Force: 2 by Lawrence Landis on page 84
- Lockheed Skunk Works by Steve Pace in Back Matter
- Star Wars: Rogue Sqadron III - Rebel Strike: Official Strategy Guide by Prima Development on page 79
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