Chuck Wolfe (2 results)

Blanda. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo. No Aplica (illustrator). 2. Best Practices in Action has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the realities of a maturing business incubation industry. Eight chapters explore these broad practice categories: governance; staffing; finances; facilities; management; program evaluation; client entrance and exit; leveraging innovation; client services. Each category is broken down into specific practice areas, with examples of how more than 40 working incubation programs have implemented best practices. A chapter of case studies highlights 11 incubation programs from the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Israel that are overall exemplars of best practice. 2145 gr. Libro.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Collection of items relating to the production of the film adaptation of The Right Stuff, including the first edition of Tom Wolfe's book signed by legendary pilot Chuck Yeager, plus four additional items signed by Yeager. Includes the following: -- First edition, first printing of The Right Stuff. Signed by Chuck Yeager on the front free endpaper in metallic ink and inscribed "Good luck!" to the recipient. [ix], 436, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth stamped in metallic silver, red, and blue. Near Fine with light toning and discoloration to cloth, faint staining to lower textblock edge, and light toning to contents. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing, toning, and edgewear and minimal scratching and soiling to rear panel. -- Black binder with photo album inserts containing construction photos of the Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis," B-29, and Mercury capsule replicas. Includes 90 3-1/2 x 5 inch and 5 approx 7-1/2 x 10-1/4 inch photos of the replicas, in various stages of construction, and the people working on them. Abrasion to verso of each small photo, noticeable on recto in raking light or not at all. Light soiling to larger photographs. -- Black binder containing clippings of articles relating to The Right Stuff movie, Chuck Yeager, and the X-1 aircraft. Includes issues of Wings, Newsweek, American Cinematographer, American Film, Plane and Pilot, and Aviation Illustrated magazines. -- Mailing envelope addressed from Yeager to Jo Anne Sharpe postmarked October 29, 1996. Contains two movie programs, lightly soiled, one with pinholes at its corners and a ticket stub clipped inside; two October 1982 issues of The Hollywood Reporter, each signed inside the front cover by Yeager; photograph of Shepard and Yeager clipped from magazine, also signed by Yeager; and a signed letter from Yeager to Jo Anne Sharpe thanking her for sending photos and alerting her that the Air Force might like to borrow the X-1 blueprints. -- Plastic folder and cloth portfolio containing photocopies of X-1 blueprints and other specs and technical data, yellow tissue drawings, and sketches relating to aircraft replica construction. -- Artwork assortment including 5 large hand-painted "Glamorous Glennis" decals for prop plane, 12 small stenciled decals ("Engine Access," etc.), 2 stencils, 3 hand-painted "Bell" decals, 2 "Aircraft" decals, 2 number decals, 1 large "X-1A' decal, and one advertising sign. Chuck Yeager was the the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. After shooting down thirteen enemy aircraft during the Second World War, he returned home to become an instructor and test pilot at the Edwards Air Force Base in California. It was there that he agreed to try to break the sound barrier in the new Bell X-1 rocket plane, knowing that he might be torn apart by shock waves in the attempt. He did it - after a night of drinking, with two broken ribs, and for no reward but his meager Air Force salary. Yeager was a legend among pilots, many of whom began imitating his Appalachian accent, but he wasn't a household name until Tom Wolfe published The Right Stuff in 1979. Wolfe's account of the first American astronauts was written in frenetic prose that suited its subject: fighter jocks jostling for a place at the top of the pyramid. Wolfe admired the bravery of all the pilots, but he placed Chuck Yeager at the apex of the pyramid. The man whose lack of a college education disqualified him from the space program was "the most righteous of all the possessors of the right stuff," in Wolfe's estimation. When director Philip Kaufman filmed the 1983 movie adaptation, he too used Yeager as a counterpoint to astronaut storyline: the first man, played by a glamorous Sam Shepard, did much work for little recognition; the others were crowned with laurels before they even put on their space suits. Yeager met Shepard at a Chinese restaurant before filming began. He was wary, though they bonded in the parking lot after the meal when t. Signed.