| Title | : | A 20th Century Guy |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.68 (801 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0979977304 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2008-07-04 |
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A 20th Century Guy is an action packed story of one guy's experiences as he participated in the most adventuresome and exciting times of the 20th Century. Jim Pearce, the author, shares his adventures as a WWII Naval Fighter Ace, as an experimental aircraft test pilot at the dawn of jet propelled flight, as a Director of Testing Operations on the Apollo Command and Service modules that transported NASA astronauts to the moon and back, as a manufacturing executive of a water pollution contol equipment manufacturing company, as a home development project designer and manager in Costa Rica, and as a builder and aviator of general aviation aircraft for private use.
Editorial : A 20th Century Guy is about Jim Pearce, who went from the auto workers' world of Detroit to the dangerous skies over the Pacific as a Navy fighter pilot, eventually becoming an ace. Jim could have stayed on the home front working for a major auto maker, but his love of flying sent him in another direction. One that would shape him into a deadly fighter pilot, one the enemy would not return from after an encounter. His talent would land him the most coveted position in any air force, whether it was Navy, Marine Corp or Army air Forces. After the war he would go through flight testing school and become one of the Navy's top pilots and got to to fly several planes on the cutting edge of technology. Jim's years in flight testing led him into the space program and the Apollo program. After many years in the space field, he moved into the boating field where he designed hulls that would be resistant to marine life. Those worlds didn't last forever and he found himself back in the aviation fi
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