Howard Hughes

by Marrett, George J.

• ISBN13: 9781591145103
• ISBN10: 1591145104
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-15
• Publisher: Naval Inst Pr

Summary

A test pilot for Howard Hughes separates fact from fiction to tell an insider's story of the aviation genius who set speed records in the 1930s and went on to develop some of America's most famous aircraft and weapons.

Author Biography

George J. Marrett was an experimental test pilot for Hughes Aircraft Company from 1969 to 1989. Prior to employment with Hughes, he served in the U.S. Air Force and flew the F-86L SabreJet at the Moody AFB, Georgia, the F-101B Voodoo at Hamilton AFB, California, and attended the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB, California. In 1968 and 1969 he flew the Douglas A-1 Skyraider as a Sandy rescue pilot in the 602nd Fighter Squadron (Commando) in Thailand, completing 188 combat missions in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. A native of Grand Island, Nebraska, Marrett is a 1957 graduate of Iowa State University in Ames. He now lives with his wife, Jan, in California, where he flies his 1945 Stinson L-5E Sentinel for air shows all over the state

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Prelude	1	(4)
Early Flying Years	5	(11)
Record Flights	16	(27)
Culver City and the War Years	43	(20)
Postwar Era	63	(34)
Test Pilots and the Early Jet Era	97	(36)
Flight Test Division	133	(30)
Transport Aircraft for TWA	163	(32)
Las Vegas	195	(8)
Press Conference	203	(6)
Last Flights	209	(11)
Legacy of Howard Hughes	220	(6)
Epilogue	226	(17)
Selected Resources	243	(2)
Index of Actors, Aviators, and Associates	245	(6)
Index of Aircraft	251