# Slipstream: the autobiography of an air craftsman Author: Wilson, Eugene E., 1887-1974 Genre: Category: Biographies Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70689 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Slipstream%3A+the+autobiography+of+an+air+craftsman+Wilson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary It was a day in March of 1924 when I first stepped across the threshold of the anteroom to the office of Rear Adm. William Adger Moffett, Chief of the new Bureau of Aeronautics in the Navy Department at Washington. The anteroom lay at the center of the extreme after end of the top deck of the third wing of the temporary frame structure which then housed, and in fact still houses, the Navy Department. Through the windows I could see the greening lawns of the Mall and the budding cherry blossoms along the rim of the Tidal Basin. Directly below, the Reflecting Pool, a square-cut sapphire, mirrored the tip of the Washington Monument and the cottony clouds of a blustery day. I handed my orders... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/32/index.md) - [CHAPTER THIRTY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/30/index.md) - [CHAPTER SEVEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER TWENTY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/20/index.md) - [CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/28/index.md) - [CHAPTER NINETEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/19/index.md) - [CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/21/index.md) - [CHAPTER SIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER EIGHT](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/29/index.md) - [CHAPTER NINE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER ONE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/24/index.md) - [CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/27/index.md) - [CHAPTER EIGHTEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/18/index.md) - [CHAPTER FOUR](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER TEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER THREE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER FIVE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER SIXTEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/23/index.md) - [CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/22/index.md) - [CHAPTER FOURTEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/14/index.md) - [CHAPTER ELEVEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/26/index.md) - [CHAPTER TWO](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER FIFTEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/15/index.md) - [CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/31/index.md) - [CHAPTER TWELVE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER THIRTEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER SEVENTEEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/17/index.md) - [CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slipstream-the-autobiography-of-an-air-craftsman-70689/chapters/25/index.md)