Wild Blue: Stories of Survival from Air and Space (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781560252511)

Wild Blue collects the most gripping accounts of what some would call the greatest achievement of the century: controlled flight. Charles Lindbergh takes readers wing-walking in a barnstorming biplane; Ernest K. Gann describes how the nocturnal spell of copiloting a DC-2 at night is broken by the unexpected terror of ice on its wings; a young ace named Chuck Yeager shatters the sound barrier and then loses consciousness in a violently tumbling rocket-plane. From the soaring to the harrowing, from flying a Piper Cub over the Rockies at the age of 14 to a nighttime carrier approach with an anxious, rusty lieutenant, Wild Blue puts readers right in the cockpit.

Author: David Fisher
ISBN-10: 1560252510
ISBN-13: 9781560252511
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 12/31/1999
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.16w x 1.11d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/15/2000 pg. 171