Cold War Test Pilot: Surviving Crash Landing and Emergency Ejections from Fast-Jets to Heavy Multi-Engine Aircraft - Hardcover

Cold War Test Pilot: Surviving Crash Landing and Emergency Ejections from Fast-Jets to Heavy Multi-Engine Aircraft - Hardcover

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Cold War Test Pilot: Surviving Crash Landing and Emergency Ejections from Fast-Jets to Heavy Multi-Engine Aircraft - Hardcover

Cold War Test Pilot: Surviving Crash Landing and Emergency Ejections from Fast-Jets to Heavy Multi-Engine Aircraft - Hardcover

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by Ron Burrows (Author)

From the 1960s through to the 1990s, Captain Burrows test-flew all of the RAF's fast-jets of the era, in the process of which he survived two crash landings and two emergency ejections, as well as numerous other close shaves. A master of his craft, he rose to become the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment' chief test pilot. He was a graduate of the US Navy's test pilot school as well and in his long career he has flown an unusually broad range of U.S. and U.K. aircraft from fast jets to heavy multi-engine aircraft. With his unrivalled knowledge and expertise, Burrows explains these methods, and demands of his profession, with many examples of what can and often does go wrong in aircraft development and testing. His descriptions of his near misses and catastrophic accidents are written with color and candor. But he also tries to inform the reader about the skills required to fly and test fast-jets and about the development of cockpit displays and design, highlighting some of the issues and problems encountered in development and in operation. 'If it could go wrong, it will go wrong' could be the subtitle of this frank and witty account which flies along with the speed of one of those fast jets.

Author Biography

Group Captain Ron Barrows, AFC, FRAeS, JP, RAF (Ret'd) joined the RAF in 1962 and flew Hunter fighter/ground attack aircraft on close air support missions over the deserts and mountains of what is now Southern Yemen. In 1970, he graduated from the U.S. Navy Test Pilots' School with a posting to the Aero plane and Armament Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down. During his subsequent four test flying tours, he flight tested all the fast jets and trainers of the time. He was the CO of the Fighter Test Squadron during the period of urgent flight trials that became necessary in support of the re-capture of the Falkland Islands, flight testing the VSTOL Harrier GR3 on the carrier-deck ski-jump and in-flight refueling from the improvised Vulcan tanker. Following staff appointments in NATO and in the U.K .MoD, he was promoted to group captain in 1985 and became A&AEE's chief test pilot. He was awarded the Air Force Cross in 1976 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1987.

Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.49 x 6.5 IN
Publication Date: January 15, 2022

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