The Last Pilot Lib/E (Audiobook)

from drewsof

A wonderful look back at a time when the men-who-were-men shot for the stars - and made it, even as their individual lives threatened to buckle under the strain. The same thrill I felt as a kid watching Apollo 11, I felt reading The Last Pilot - it captures the spirit of the time and the complexi...

from UnderMyAppleTree

This was a little different than what I expected. I thought I would get a fast-paced thrill-ride centering around the space program and astronauts, or maybe the excitement of Apollo 13, but rather than an adventure based on the pilots, the newly emerging space program, and the race to the moon, t...

from ParadisePorch

(Fiction, Historical, American) The last pilot is set in 1960 and 1961, during the early days of the American space program when US Armed Forces pilots were 'testing-driving' jets over the Mojave Desert and dying at an alarming rate in crashes. Johncock has peopled his novel with the real players...

from drewsof

A wonderful look back at a time when the men-who-were-men shot for the stars - and made it, even as their individual lives threatened to buckle under the strain. The same thrill I felt as a kid watching Apollo 11, I felt reading The Last Pilot - it captures the spirit of the time and the complexi...

from drewsof

A wonderful look back at a time when the men-who-were-men shot for the stars - and made it, even as their individual lives threatened to buckle under the strain. The same thrill I felt as a kid watching Apollo 11, I felt reading The Last Pilot - it captures the spirit of the time and the complexi...