Part one of term paper
, by Tom Wolfe, is a very entertaining and easy-to-read nonfiction work. This book, about airplanes, pilots, and their lives, is fascinating because of both its technical and non-technical aspects. The pilots and their "right" stuff find themselves in many dilemmas. To keep the book interesting, Tom Wolfe uses three things to maintain the ...

Part two of term paper
... the thousands of infinitesimal technical speculations. An example of one of his many detailed sentences is found on page fifty-six and states, "Aviation had drawings and most specifications of a 15 ton ship called the X-15B, a winged craft that would be launched by three enormous rockets each with 415,000 pounds of thrust whereupon the ships two pilots would take over with the X-15B’s own 75,000 pound engine, make three or more orbits around the earth, reenter the atmosphere and land on a d ...