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Pisano, Dominic A. , F. Robert Van Der Linden, Winter, And Frank H. Winter ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
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Pisano, Dominic A. , F. Robert Van Der Linden, Winter, and Frank H. Winter Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 : Breaking the Sound Barrier
New York Harry N. Abrams 2006 0810955350 / 9780810955356 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
144 pages, well illustrated (some in color) , pictorial boards, DJ, very good 8 by 10-1/2 inches. Foreword by Chuck Yeager. From Library Journal: "This lovely illustrated text is authored by three curators at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (SNASM) : Pisano and F. Robert Van Der Linden (aeronautics division; coauthors, Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis) and Frank H. Winter (space history division). The book focuses both on the first aircraft to break the sound barrier, the Bell X-1, which is in the SNASM collection, and on the man who flew it, retired Brigadier Gen. Chuck Yeager. After an introduction by Yeager, the October 14, 1947, sound-breaking flight is dramatically recounted, and the developments leading up to the achievement are recapped. The authors generously excerpt Yeager: An Autobiography but have also created a readable text of their own. The quantity (125) and quality of the illustrations, the dust jacket, and the thick, glossy paper are characteristic of popular science texts and will appeal to a general audience. Pilots and other technical readers will delight in the well-researched content, including two appendixes and an index. " AVSTK14 ; 144 pages
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