Wholesale The Aviation Pioneers of McCook Field

McCook Field was a small air base in Dayton, Ohio, that was active only from 1917 to 1927. McCook was exceptional because it was designated by the US Signal Corps / Army Air Corps as an aeronautical research facility. As the center of prototype testing of new aircraft, McCook was a magnet for the leading aviators and engineers of the time. This work contains unpublished interviews with 20 of those aviation pioneers. • WWII hero Jimmy Doolittle • Test pilot Harold R. Harris (the first man to fly in a pressurized cockpit, first to bail out with a free fall parachute) • WWII Tenth Air Force commander Howard Davidson • Major General Franklin O. Carroll, who oversaw the development of the first American military jet aircraft • Oakley Kelley, who made the first nonstop flight across the United States in 1923 • The first SAC (Strategic Air Command) commander, George C. Kenney 192 pp | 36 b/w photos