Supersonic Flight: Breaking the Sound Barrier and Beyond : the Story of the Bell X-1 and Douglas D-558
- ISBN-10
- 1857532538
- ISBN-13
- 9781857532531
- Category
- Transportation / Aviation / History
- Pages
- 268
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Brassey's
- Author
- Richard Hallion
Description
Hallion describes the basic problems of supersonic flight, looking at Geoffrey de Havilland's fatal attempt to break the sound barrier in 1946, Chuck Yeager's successful flight in 1947, and the first aircraft to reach twice the speed of sound
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