Authors Trapnell and Tibbitts present students, academics, and general interest readers with an examination of life and aviation history of Frederick “Trap” Trapnell, a test pilot or the U.S. Navy. The authors have organized the main body of their text in seventeen roughly chronological chapters beginning with Trapnell’s upbringing, continuing through his years as a fighter pilot, covering his tenure as leader of the flight test section of the U.S. Navy in the years leading up to American involvement in the Second World War, and examining his days testing jets and his aviation legacy. Frederick M. Trapnell Jr. is a retired software engineer and author living in California. Dana Trapnell Tibbitts is an author and educator living in Nevada. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)