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Subtitled: More Than Just a Tanker. This highly readable text follows the development and service use of this globe-trotting aircraft and takes you through task
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Authors: Robert S. Hopkins, III
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Few would have imagined when "Dix" Loesch and "Tex" Johnston took the KC-135A up for its maiden flight on 31 August 1956 that some 60 years later, it would stil
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Although the Boeing 707 is known worldwide as the machine which took civil aviation from the piston engine era into that of the jet engine, what is very often n
Tanker Pilot
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From a veteran air-refueling expert who flew missions for over two decades during the Cold War, Gulf War, and Iraq War comes a thrilling eyewitness account of m
Tex Johnston
Language: en
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One of America's most daring and accomplished test pilots, Tex Johnston flew the first US jet airplanes and, in a career spanning the 1930s through the 1970s, h