Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Alcazar, Vincent
Article Excerpt
The Smell of Kerosene: A Test Pilot's Odyssey. By Donald Mallick with Peter Merlin. Washington D. C. : NASA History Office, 2004 [NASA SP 4108]. Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Appendices. Index. Pp xi, 252. $22. 00 ISBN-030-000-01270-5
What does one have to show for a 30-year career as a NASA test pilot during the "golden age" of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center? Answer: an aviation biography that reads like a fantasy list of incredibly varied aircraft test flown from the late 1950s through the late 1980s. This book chronicles the career of Donald Mallick,...
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