Isbn: 9780887407321 - whistling death: the test pilot's story of the f4u corsair (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Whistling Death The Test Pilot's Story of the F4u Corsair By Boone T. Guyton. Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1994. First Edition. Hardback with jacket, bookseller's label inside front board, one page has creasing and a small closed tear to top edge, otherwise near new with no inscriptions. Jacket has light shelf/edge wear, front flap corner clipped. Whistling Death is the true story, by the test pilot, of the rush to produce the F4U Corsair, the Navy fighter that brought America air superiority over the Japanese Zero in World War II. Here is the crash program - complete with crash landings - powered by the dedicated men and women of the home front who designed and built this revolutionary, tide-turning airplane. Boone T. Guyton, an experimental test pilot at Chance Vought during and after World War II, flew 105 types of aircraft in 45 years as a pilot. 272 pages with 16 pages of photographs. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand.…