The Smell of Kerosene: A Test Pilot's Odyssey.(Book review)
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07
Publication Title: Air Power History
Format: Online
Author: Alcazar, Vincent

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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...



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