Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.9
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
23591
Points per Word
0.00017
Page Count
126
Points per Page
0.031746
Description
This biography surveys the life of the country boy from West Virginia who became a great pilot, ending his career as an Air Force brigadier general with more than 10,000 hours of flying time in some 180 different aircraft.