About Flight Testing

from the Virginia Tech Aircraft Design Information Sources pages

Richard P. Hallion, Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen of Flight, Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington, 1981, 1988. Good survey, virtually all flight test programs covered, but weak on Navy testing at Patuxent River.

Richard P. Hallion, On the Frontier: Flight research at Dryden, 1946-1981, NASA SP 4303, 1984. The story of NACA and NASA flight test operations at Edwards.

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