Jerry Koszyk

The Aviation Pioneers of McCook Field

Candid Interviews with American Aeronautical Visionaries of the 1920s

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Produktbeschreibung

"McCook field was a small air base in Dayton, Ohio, that was active only from 1917 to 1927. McCook was exceptional because it was designated by the US Signal Corps / Army Air Corps as an aeronautical research facility. As the center of prototype testing of new aircraft, McCook was a magnet for the leading aviators and engineers of the time. This work contains unpublished interviews with 20 of those aviation pioneers. Interviews include WWII hero Jimmy Doolittle; test pilot Harold R. Harris (the first man to fly in a pressurized cockpit, first to bail out with a free-fall parachite); WWII 10th Air Force commander Howard Davidson; Maj. Gen. Franklin O. Carroll, who oversaw the development of the first American military jet aircraft; Oakley Kelley, who made the first nonstop flight across the United States in 1923; the first SAC (Strategic Air Command) commander, George C. Kenney; Consolidated Aircraft Company founder Rueben Fleet; and Alexander de Seversky, who invented an accurate bombsight that inspired the Norden bombsight and founded the Republic Aviation Corporation. The majority of the interviews were conducted by the author in-person, with the remainder being drawn from audio-recorded interviews by a personal friend, Gen. George W. Goddard"--Book jacket.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 163mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780764363528
• ISBN-10: 0764363522
• Artikelnr.: 62646657

Autorenporträt

Jerry Koszyk holds a degree in aeronautics and is a retired air traffic controller. He conducted the majority of this book's interviews in person.