Wild Blue: Stories of Survival from Air and Space
Wild Blue collects the most gripping accounts of what some would call the greatest achievement of the century: controlled flight. Charles Lindbergh takes readers wing-walking in a barnstorming biplane; Ernest K. Gann describes how the nocturnal spell of copiloting a DC-2 at night is broken by the unexpected terror of ice on its wings; a young ace named Chuck Yeager shatters the sound barrier and then loses consciousness in a violently tumbling rocket-plane. From the soaring to the harrowing, from flying a Piper Cub over the Rockies at the age of 14 to a nighttime carrier approach with an anxious, rusty lieutenant, Wild Blue puts readers right in the cockpit.
- Author
- David Fisher, William Garvey
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 360
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781560252511
- Genres
- aviation
- Release date
- 1999
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