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George Marrett is that rare individual who is not only an expert on his subject--from flying experimental jets to training to be an astronaut--but he's also a wonderfully talented and intuitive writer who will keep you up late at night with the power of his words. --Wayman Dunlap, editor, Pacific Flyer Newspapers, Inc.

George Marrett has done it again! Contrails over the Mojave is a must-have book for every lover of aviation. Marrett writes as well as he flew, which is to say with authority, accuracy, punch, and color! The wonderful thing about Marrett is the amazing way he puts you in the cockpit of a complex Mach 2 aircraft and makes you understand just how far he is pushing the envelope. Col. Walter J. Boyne, USAF (Ret.), bestselling aviation historian, former director of the Smithsonian s National Air & Space Museum, and a member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame

Contrails over the Mojave is a major contribution to the literature of flight testing and flight research. Rich with anecdotes and insight, it illuminates some of the most significant aerospace programs of the 1960s, a time when America was locked in a no-holds-barred struggle for supremacy with the Soviet Union, and Edwards Air Force Base--the nation's premier flight test center--was grappling with Space Age challenges and training test pilots to meet them. --Richard P. Hallion, Verville Fellow, National Air and Space Museum, and former historian of the Air Force Flight Test Center George Marrett is that rare individual who is not only an expert on his subject--from flying experimental jets to training to be an astronaut--but he's also a wonderfully talented and intuitive writer who will keep you up late at night with the power of his words. --Wayman Dunlap, editor, Pacific Flyer Newspapers, Inc. George Marrett has done it again! Contrails over the Mojave is a must-have book for every lover of aviation. Marrett writes as well as he flew, which is to say with authority, accuracy, punch, and color! The wonderful thing about Marrett is the amazing way he puts you in the cockpit of a complex Mach 2 aircraft and makes you understand just how far he is pushing the envelope. --Col. Walter J. Boyne, USAF (Ret.), bestselling aviation historian, former director of the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum, and a member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame

George Marrett has done it again! Contrails over the Mojave is a must-have book for every lover of aviation. Marrett writes as well as he flew, which is to say with authority, accuracy, punch, and color! The wonderful thing about Marrett is the amazing way he puts you in the cockpit of a complex Mach 2 aircraft and makes you understand just how far he is pushing the envelope. --Col. Walter J. Boyne, USAF (Ret.), bestselling aviation historian, former director of the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum, and a member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame Contrails over the Mojave is a major contribution to the literature of flight testing and flight research. Rich with anecdotes and insight, it illuminates some of the most significant aerospace programs of the 1960s, a time when America was locked in a no-holds-barred struggle for supremacy with the Soviet Union, and Edwards Air Force Base--the nation's premier flight test center--was grappling with Space Age challenges and training test pilots to meet them. --Richard P. Hallion, Verville Fellow, National Air and Space Museum, and former historian of the Air Force Flight Test Center George Marrett is that rare individual who is not only an expert on his subject--from flying experimental jets to training to be an astronaut--but he's also a wonderfully talented and intuitive writer who will keep you up late at night with the power of his words. --Wayman Dunlap, editor, Pacific Flyer Newspapers, Inc.

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George J. Marrett flew 188 missions in the Douglas A-1 Skyraider in Vietnam and tested more than forty types of military aircraft in twenty-five years as a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force and Hughes Aircraft Company. He is a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and the Board of Trustees, National Test Pilot School, Mojave, California, USA. Marrett is also the author of Howard Hughes: Aviator; Cheating Death: Combat Air Rescues in Vietnam and Laos, and Testing Death: Hughes Aircraft Test Pilots and Cold War Weaponry.

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