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Aviation Pioneers of McCook Field: Candid Interviews with American Aeronautical Visionaries of the 1920s
Aviation Pioneers of McCook Field: Candid Interviews with American Aeronautical Visionaries of the 1920s
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Unpublished interviews with key figures in early American aviation, such as Jimmy Doolittle, Alexander Seversky, George Kenney, Reuben Fleet, and Howard Davidson, are included in this work, which was designated as an aeronautical research facility by the US Signal Corps / Army Air Corps. The interviews were conducted by the author in-person and audio-recorded interviews by a personal friend, General George W. Goddard.
Format: Hardback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 26 July 2022
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Unpublished, candid interviews with key figures in early American aviation, including Jimmy Doolittle, Alexander Seversky, George Kenney, Reuben Fleet, and many more, are featured in this work. McCook Field, a small air base in Dayton, Ohio, was operational 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 attracted the leading aviators and engineers of the time.
This work contains unpublished interviews with 20 of those aviation pioneers.
WWII hero Jimmy Doolittle: Test pilot Harold R. Harris (the first man to fly in a pressurized cockpit, the first to bail out with a free fall parachute) WWII Tenth Air Force commander Howard Davidson: Major General 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: Alexander Seversky, who created 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, General George W. Goddard.
Weight: 634g
Dimension: 165 x 237 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780764363528
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