Foreword
Reading edition
Long ago at Edwards, I heard a story that stuck in my mind. Two small boys, the sons of pilots, were discussing their fathers. One said to the other: “Aw, your father can’t be a test pilot. He hasn’t written a book.”
Now I have joined the clan, but, I hope, with a difference. Inevitably I have reminisced, as, it seems, all pilots must. But the intent of this book is broader than mere memoirs. Put simply, the objective is to restate an old principle: that not talk but action is the key to man’s progress, and in this age, freedom from enslavement.
A. Scott Crossfield
Los Angeles, Calif. August 1960