Racing to War: The Aviation Legacy of Robert Hall

Robert Hall was the rarest of aviation pioneers— an aeronautical engineer who was also the test pilot for his designs. Serving as Chief Engineer and lead test pilot at Grumman Aviation at the outbreak of the Second World War, he was able to expedite the development of navel aircraft to replace the Navy's aging air fleet, particularly fighters that would outperform the daunting Japanese Zero, one of the fastest fighters of the early years of the war. In all, Hall had a hand in the design and...