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OTD in Space - October 14: Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier

On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time! Yeager was a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force who made history by flying an aircraft faster than the speed of sound. He made ...
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How Chuck Yeager’s Flight Launched America’s Space Age

The Problem That Grounded the Future By the late 1940s, American aviation had reached a limit literally. Fighter aircra ...
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Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 : breaking the sound barrier / Dominick A. Pisano, F. Robert van der Linden, Frank H. Winter ; foreword by Chuck Yeager

The man / by Dominick A. Pisano -- The aircraft / by F. Robert van der Linden -- The engine / by Frank H. Winter -- The flights / by F. Robert van der Linden -- The celebrity hero / by Dominick A.
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Chasing the demon : a secret history of the quest for the sound barrier, and the band of American aces who conquered it / Dan Hampton

NASM copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. "In 1947, the United States Air Force was established. Meanwhile, scientists and engineers were pioneering a revolutionary new type of aircraft which could ...