Trials and Errors - Experimental UK Test Flying in the 1970s

"Mike Brooke's successful RAF career had taken him from Cold War Canberra pilot to flying instructor at the Central Flying School in the 1970s. For his next step he undertook the demanding training regime at the UK's Empire Test Pilots' School. His goal: to become a fully qualified experimental test pilot. Trials and Errors follows his personal journey during five years of experimental test flying, during which he flew a wide variety of aircraft for research and development trials. Mike then returned to ETPS to teach pilots from all over the world to become test pilots"-- Page 4 of cover.

About the author

Mike Brooke joined the RAF in 1962. After serving on the low-level strike/attack squadron, Brooke became a flying instructor and experimental test pilot. Further test flying tours followed, but in 1984, after 22 years in flying appointments, he was sent to the RAF Advanced Staff College. He was promoted to Wing Commander and took command of flying at RAF Farnborough, leaving the RAF in 1994. Brooke then became a test-flying consultant, finally retiring in 2004. In 1984, he was awarded the Air Force Cross by HM Queen Elizabeth. He is the author of A Bucket of Sunshine and Follow Me Through.

Summary

Mike Brooke’s successful RAF career had taken him from Cold War Canberra pilot to flying instructor at the Central Flying School in the 1970s. Trials and Errors follows his personal journey during five years of experimental test flying, during which he flew a wide variety of aircraft for research and development trials.

Product details

• Authors: Mike Brooke, Wing Commander Mike Brooke, Brooke Wing Commander Mike
• Publisher: The History Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780750961608
• ISBN: 978-0-7509-6160-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Aircraft, space travel; Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Aviation and space engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration