Cold War Test Pilot: Surviving Crash Landing and Emergency Ejections from Fast-Jets to Heavy Multi-Engine Aircraft

From the 1960s through to the 1990s, Captain Burrows test-flew all of the RAF's fast-jets of the era, in the process of which he survived two crash landings and two emergency ejections, as well as numerous other close shaves. A master of his craft, he rose to become the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment' chief test pilot. He was a graduate of the US Navy's test pilot school as well and in his long career he has flown an unusually broad range of U.S. and U.K. aircraft from fa...