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From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: REVIEW of TEX JOHNSTON
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RD> == Robert Dorsett <rdd@rascal.ics.utexas.edu>

 RD> Tex Johnston, Jet-Age Test Pilot

 RD> By A. M. Johnston, with Charles Barton.
 RD> Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
 RD> 274 pp., illustrated.
 RD> ISBN 1-56098-013-3, hardbound.

The (excellent) Bantam Air & Space series has this available in
softcover for a lot less money (and a lot more portability).  They also
have some other good books for airliner fans, including Gann's _Band of
Brothers_ and a treatment of the DC-3.
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