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| Publisher | Crecy Publishing |
| ISBN 13 | 9781800352940 |
| ISBN 10 | 1800352948 |
| Author | Tommy H Thomason |
| Language | English |
| Book Description | The Chance Vought F7U Cutlass was an innovative but flawed tail-less jet fighter that faced numerous developmental challenges and mixed operational reviews.The Chance Vought F7U Cutlass was ahead of its time. In 1948, when it first |
| About the Author | Now retired, Tommy H. Thomason doesn't remember when he didn't want to be a pilot. He received his Private Pilot License a few days before his 21st birthday and subsequently graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering, earning graduate degrees from the University of Southern California and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. His 40-year career in the aerospace industry included assignments as a flight test engineer, manager, and executive. He has an Airline Transport Pilot certificate; been a flight instructor for airplanes, gliders, and instruments; and flown more than 3,000 hours in 80 different airplanes, helicopters, and sailplanes with one guest-pilot flight in the Goodyear blimp and another in the XV-15 Tilt Rotor Research Aircraft. Although thwarted by poor distance vision in becoming a Navy fighter pilot, he has maintained a very active interest in carrier aviation, authoring numerous articles and blog posts, five books, and seven monographs on U.S. Navy aircraft.Assembling a proverbial "glue-bomb" model aircraft at the age of two-despite not ever having seen an aircraft nor having the ability to read the instructions-author Al Casby was clearly pre-disposed for a career as a pilot. At the age of eight he spotted an illustration of a Chance Vought F7U-1 Cutlass in his artist-father's files and his life's goal became instantly clear. He set out to acquire an actual F7U and began a letter-writing campaign whose recipients included Admirals, Senators, Astronauts, and over two hundred former Cutlass pilots. From purchasing his first F7U-3 cockpit as a teenager to starting up Westinghouse jet engines on his father's driveway, the dream of owning (and flying) a Cutlass was always first and foremost. In October of 2014, he finally acquired the only complete one that could be made flyable again and began the arduous ongoing task of restoring the aircraft to airworthiness. Employed as a senior commercial airline Captain, to date he has amassed over 31,000 flight hours in DC-6s, Convair 640s, L-188 Electras, Boeing 737 and 757s, and Airbus A319/320/321 airliners in his 41-year career. With retirement around the corner, he looks forward to continuing to restore his F7U-3 with the hopes of achieving the goal he set his sights on 56 years ago. |
| Publication Date | 23 November 2024 |
| Number of Pages | 384 pages |
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