Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base - Paperbackby George J. Marrett (Author) In Contrails over the Mojave George Marrett takes off where Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff ended in 1963. Marrett started the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB only two weeks after the school's commander, Col. Chuck Yeager, ejected from a Lockheed NF 104 trying to set a world altitude record. He describes life as a space cadet experiencing 15 Gs in a human centrifuge, zero G maneuvers in a KC 135 "Vomit Comet," and
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Contrails Over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base - Paperback