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    Cover image for Testing Death: Hughes Aircraft Test Pilots and Cold War Weaponry
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    Testing Death: Hughes Aircraft Test Pilots and Cold War Weaponry

    George J. Marrett

    In 1969, after his return from Vietnam, George Marrett took a job as a test pilot at Hughes Aircraft. By the 1950s, Hughes Aircraft built airborne radar and missiles for…

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    Contrails over the Mojave: The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base

    George J. Marrett

    In Contrails over the Mojave George Marrett takes off where Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff ended in 1963. Marrett started the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB only…

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    Howard Hughes: Aviator

    George J. Marrett

    A test pilot for Howard Hughes separates fact from fiction to tell the inside story of the aviation genius who set speed records in the 1930s and went on to…

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    Cheating Death: Combat Air Rescues in Vietnam and Laos

    George J. Marrett,Marrett

    They flew low and slow, at treetop level, at night, in monsoons, and in point-blank range of enemy guns and missiles. They were missions no one else wanted, but the…

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