Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.132305
EAN num: 9781857532531
ISBN number: 1857532538
Label: Brassey's UK
Manufacturer: Brassey's UK
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 268
Printing Date: 1997-10
Publishing house: Brassey's UK
Sale Popularity Level: 1090990
Studio: Brassey's UK
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Recounts the story of Bell X-1 in which Chuck Yeager successfully broke the speed of sound and of Douglas D-558-2, the very first aircraft to reach twice the speed of sound. Includes many rare photographs.
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Richard Hallion is the master of Aviation History. This book looks closely at the USAF's X-1 program and the US Navy's D-558 program and examines the NACA's roll in shaping the avaition research being undertaken at that time.
An interesting historical overview that gives insight in to how the USAF and Navy went about avaition research in their own ways. The book also covers areas of the much less topical D-558, a progam that was well and trully overshadowed by the Bell X-1.
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