tom yeager (3 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm ; ISBN 9780960893010, 0960893016 OCLC 12763897 LCCN 85071412 LC QC373.K3 B35 1985 Dewey 688.72 ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Once upon a scope -- New Images Emerge -- Related Facets and Inner Reflections -- Shops and Galleries Featuring Kaleidoscopes -- Brewster Patents and Excerpts from Bush Patents ; Kaleidoscope makers profiled: Doug Johnson, Carolyn Bennett, Peach Reynolds, Craig Musser, Bill O'Connor, Susan Stover, Peg Comeau, Dennis Comeau, Janice Chesnick, Sheryl Koch, Irene Ecuyer, Bill Ecuyer, Carrie Souza, Kirk Webber, Carmen Colley, Stephen Colley, Tom proctor, Corki Weeks, Dee Potter, Sue Ross, Erik Van Cort, Kate Van Cort, John Culver, Tina Stasi, Jeff Stasi, Charles Karadimos, Annie greenberg, Craig Huber, David Kalish, Marilyn Endress, Joe Kerby, Tim grannis, Jack Lazarowski, Ken Kosage, Cheryl Kosage, robert Moorehead, Stella Moorehead, Lesley Wadsworth, Willie Stevenson, Alice Stevenson, Dominique Stora, Gary Newlin, Howard Roe, Alfred Brickel, Marshall Yeager, Walter Reike, Kenneth Kaufman, Irene Holler, Ray Howlett, Robert Stephen, Mary Golden, Brian Tompkins, Mary Ann Saber, Helmut Coral, and Charlene Coral ; business card of La Belle Epoque, The Perfume of New Orleans, The Jackson Brewery, Babs Ryan and Joy Gowland stapled to inside front cover ; several plates of full-colored photographs of various and unique kaleidoscopes ; rare details on several glass arrtists around the country ; G. Book.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. Collection of items relating to the production of the film adaptation of The Right Stuff, including the first edition of Tom Wolfe's book signed by legendary pilot Chuck Yeager, plus four additional items signed by Yeager. Includes the following: -- First edition, first printing of The Right Stuff. Signed by Chuck Yeager on the front free endpaper in metallic ink and inscribed "Good luck!" to the recipient. [ix], 436, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth stamped in metallic silver, red, and blue. Near Fine with light toning and discoloration to cloth, faint staining to lower textblock edge, and light toning to contents. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing, toning, and edgewear and minimal scratching and soiling to rear panel. -- Black binder with photo album inserts containing construction photos of the Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis," B-29, and Mercury capsule replicas. Includes 90 3-1/2 x 5 inch and 5 approx 7-1/2 x 10-1/4 inch photos of the replicas, in various stages of construction, and the people working on them. Abrasion to verso of each small photo, noticeable on recto in raking light or not at all. Light soiling to larger photographs. -- Black binder containing clippings of articles relating to The Right Stuff movie, Chuck Yeager, and the X-1 aircraft. Includes issues of Wings, Newsweek, American Cinematographer, American Film, Plane and Pilot, and Aviation Illustrated magazines. -- Mailing envelope addressed from Yeager to Jo Anne Sharpe postmarked October 29, 1996. Contains two movie programs, lightly soiled, one with pinholes at its corners and a ticket stub clipped inside; two October 1982 issues of The Hollywood Reporter, each signed inside the front cover by Yeager; photograph of Shepard and Yeager clipped from magazine, also signed by Yeager; and a signed letter from Yeager to Jo Anne Sharpe thanking her for sending photos and alerting her that the Air Force might like to borrow the X-1 blueprints. -- Plastic folder and cloth portfolio containing photocopies of X-1 blueprints and other specs and technical data, yellow tissue drawings, and sketches relating to aircraft replica construction. -- Artwork assortment including 5 large hand-painted "Glamorous Glennis" decals for prop plane, 12 small stenciled decals ("Engine Access," etc.), 2 stencils, 3 hand-painted "Bell" decals, 2 "Aircraft" decals, 2 number decals, 1 large "X-1A' decal, and one advertising sign. Chuck Yeager was the the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. After shooting down thirteen enemy aircraft during the Second World War, he returned home to become an instructor and test pilot at the Edwards Air Force Base in California. It was there that he agreed to try to break the sound barrier in the new Bell X-1 rocket plane, knowing that he might be torn apart by shock waves in the attempt. He did it - after a night of drinking, with two broken ribs, and for no reward but his meager Air Force salary. Yeager was a legend among pilots, many of whom began imitating his Appalachian accent, but he wasn't a household name until Tom Wolfe published The Right Stuff in 1979. Wolfe's account of the first American astronauts was written in frenetic prose that suited its subject: fighter jocks jostling for a place at the top of the pyramid. Wolfe admired the bravery of all the pilots, but he placed Chuck Yeager at the apex of the pyramid. The man whose lack of a college education disqualified him from the space program was "the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff," in Wolfe's estimation. When director Philip Kaufman filmed the 1983 movie adaptation, he too used Yeager as a counterpoint to astronaut storyline: the first man, played by a glamorous Sam Shepard, did much work for little recognition; the others were crowned with laurels before they even put on their space suits. Yeager met Shepard at a Chinese restaurant before filming began. He was wary, though they bonded in the parking lot after the meal when they discovered they both drove pickup trucks. In the end he liked Shepard's straightforward and understated performance: "He played his role the way I fly airplanes." The movie was a labor of love that took Kaufman eight months to film - longer, he joked, than he had spent going to college. His actors liked him and liked the project. Dennis Quaid, who played the cocky astronaut Gordon Cooper, said that it was the greatest love affair of his life and that he cried when filming was finished. The special effects were a challenge, but Rod Sharpe, an ex-naval architect turned Hollywood procurer, brought the "Glamorous Glennis" to life with wood and epoxy resin. His Bell X-1 was more accurate to the original blueprints than the real thing, since he was able to scale up the drawings using a computer and not a slide rule. The process of building the little plane is documented in the technical drawings, decals, and photographs in this collection. Yeager served as a flying technical consultant and at some point signed the book and memorabilia in this archive - a fantastic record of top-tier American talent. Signed.