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Test Pilots, by Wolfgang Spate
Picked up a copy at the RAF Museum shop, Hendon, today - reduced from £19.95 to £4.99 (whatever that is in funny money...)
Looks a bargain, covering from 1910 (Kurt Zwickau) to 1986!
Includes pieces from 18 authors, including Hanna Reitsch (crash-landing a Me163); parachute and ejection-seat trials (Wilhelm Buss et al) plus details of trials of retro-rockets, rigid-tow gliders, troika-schlepp, etc; DFS280 testing and more...
Plenty of photos - quality varies, since they and the texts are contemporary.
Looks good to me at first browse - any comments?
Tony
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Cheers,
TonyC
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