Patrick Hamblin’s Reviews > T. Wolfe's The Right > Status Update

“There was an Air Force pilot named Mike Collins…Mike Collins has undergone eleven weeks of combat training at Nellis Air Force Base…and in that eleven weeks twenty-two of his fellow trainees had died in accidents…Then there was a test pilot Bill Bridgman. In 1952 when Bridgman was flying at Edwards Air Force Base, sixty-two Air Force pilots died in the course of thirty-six weeks of training.” (15)