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Above Average is a pretty remarkable story about a farmboy turned Navy test pilot. I won't recount everything, because there's a lot, but he entered into the Navy at a time when you didn't need a college degree to be an officer. Wanting to be a fighter pilot, he was "unlucky" enough to go the light attack community and fly the A-4 Skyhawk. A couple of deployments to Vietnam, staff duty, Navy Test Pilot School at Pax River, even acting as a test pilot for the F-14 (which nearly killed him), Smith had an amazing career.
The book is very well written and worth it for you history/ aviation types.
Above Average is a pretty remarkable story about a farmboy turned Navy test pilot. I won't recount everything, because there's a lot, but he entered into the Navy at a time when you didn't need a college degree to be an officer. Wanting to be a fighter pilot, he was "unlucky" enough to go the light attack community and fly the A-4 Skyhawk. A couple of deployments to Vietnam, staff duty, Navy Test Pilot School at Pax River, even acting as a test pilot for the F-14 (which nearly killed him), Smith had an amazing career.
The book is very well written and worth it for you history/ aviation types.