Breaking The Sound Barrier The Story Of Chuck Yeager

Author : Dominick A. Pisano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 written by Dominick A. Pisano and published by . This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and text chronicle World War II ace Charles "Chuck" Yeager's quest to fly supersonically and profile the people and aircraft that made it possible for him to break the sound barrier.

Author : Susan Sales Harkins
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
ISBN 13 : 1545749221
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Sound Barrier: The Story of Chuck Yeager written by Susan Sales Harkins and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chuck Yeager loved to fly. His determination led him to be a fighter and test pilot. He flew as often as he could in any craft he could. Eventually, he became the expert on military aircraft. He knew just what each plane could do, and more importantly, what it couldnt. As important as knowing how far he could push a plane, he also knew when to pull back. His pioneering efforts in breaking the sound barrier made modern aviation and space exploration possible.

Author : R. Conrad Stein
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516202945
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier written by R. Conrad Stein and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1997 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates how the young pilot distinguished himself in World War II and subsequently became the first person to break the sonic barrier.

Author : Chuck Yeager
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780712667050
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yeager written by Chuck Yeager and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The secret to my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.'General Chuck Yeager was the fist man to fly faster than the speed of sound. He was also the World War II fighting ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang - Chuck Yeager is The Right Stuff.He first joined the US Air Force at eighteen, fresh from school, and by twenty-two had risen through the ranks on the wings of his heroic exploits dogfighting over the flak-filled skies of Nazi Europe. But it was in 1947 that Yeager achieved worldwide recognition as the first test pilot to smash the sound barrier, flying the super-secret Bell X-1 despite cracked ribs from a riding accident.This was truly the Golden Age of Aviation, the exciting leap into the supersonic era - the daredevil, death-defying days of the true winged heroes. And Chuck Yeager was there every step of the way - fighting and winning.

Author : Tom Wolfe
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429961325
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Right Stuff written by Tom Wolfe and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. "Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review) Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth. It is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny empathetic powers, that made The Right Stuff a classic.

Author : Alan W. Biermann
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781480276321
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chuck Yeager Goes Supersonic written by Alan W. Biermann and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Young readers will soar as they discover the life of Chuck Yeager, an America hero whose courage changed the world of flight forever."--Back cover.

Author : Dan Hampton
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006268874X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Demon written by Dan Hampton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • At the end of World War II, a band of aces gathered in the Mojave Desert on a Top Secret quest to break the sound barrier–nicknamed "The Demon" by pilots. The true story of what happened in those skies has never been told. Speed. In 1947, it represented the difference between victory and annihilation. After Hiroshima, the ability to deliver a nuclear device to its target faster than one’s enemy became the singular obsession of American war planners. And so, in the earliest days of the Cold War, a highly classified program was conducted on a desolate air base in California’s Mojave Desert. Its aim: to push the envelope of flight to new frontiers. There gathered an extraordinary band of pilots, including Second World War aces Chuck Yeager and George Welch, who risked their lives flying experimental aircraft to reach Mach 1, the so-called sound barrier, which pilots called “the demon.” Shrouding the program in secrecy, the US military reluctantly revealed that the “barrier” had been broken two months later, after the story was leaked to the press. The full truth has never been fully revealed—until now. Chasing the Demon, from decorated fighter pilot and acclaimed aviation historian Dan Hampton, tells, for the first time, the extraordinary true story of mankind’s quest for Mach 1. Here, of course, is twenty-four-year-old Captain Chuck Yeager, who made history flying the futuristic Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound on October 14, 1947. Officially Yeager was the first to achieve supersonic flight, but drawing on new interviews with survivors of the program, including Yeager’s former commander, as well as declassified files, Hampton presents evidence that a fellow American—George Welch, a daring fighter pilot who shot down a remarkable sixteen enemy aircraft during the Pacific War—met the demon first, though he was not favored to wear the laurels, as he was now a civilian test pilot and was not flying the Bell X-1. Chasing the Demon sets the race between Yeager and Welch in the context of aviation history, so that the reader can learn and appreciate their accomplishments as never before.

Author : Chuck Yeager
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Mach One written by Chuck Yeager and published by Avery. This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 14, 1947, flying the Bell X-1 rocket plane, Chuck Yeager burst through the mythical sound barrier at mach 1.0, to become the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound. Yeager's epic flight was the culmination of hours of work and flying time by a group of dedicated aviation pioneers, and it marked the beginning of flight testing as we know it. Who were these men? What were the aeronautical hurdles they cleared to usher in the space age and manned space flight? In the quest for Mach One, members of the Mach One team come together to chronicle the entire X-1 programme. They are Chuck Yeager, test pilot; Bob Cardenas, mother ship pilot; Bob Hoover, backup and chase pilot; and Jack Russell, Yeager's X-1 crew chief. Theirs is a saga of camaraderie, technical brilliance and heroism.

Author : Chris Petty
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496223551
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Blue Skies written by Chris Petty and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945 some experts still considered the so-called sound barrier an impenetrable wall, while winged rocket planes remained largely relegated to science fiction. But soon a series of unique rocket-powered research aircraft and the dedicated individuals who built, maintained, and flew them began to push the boundaries of flight in aviation’s quest to move ever higher, ever faster, toward the unknown. Beyond Blue Skies examines the thirty-year period after World War II during which aviation experienced an unprecedented era of progress that led the United States to the boundaries of outer space. Between 1946 and 1975, an ancient dry lakebed in California’s High Desert played host to a series of rocket-powered research aircraft built to investigate the outer reaches of flight. The western Mojave’s Rogers Dry Lake became home to Edwards Air Force Base, NASA’s Flight Research Center, and an elite cadre of test pilots. Although one of them—Chuck Yeager—would rank among the most famous names in history, most who flew there during those years played their parts away from public view. The risks they routinely accepted were every bit as real as those facing NASA’s astronauts, but no magazine stories or free Corvettes awaited them—just long days in a close-knit community in the High Desert. The role of not only the test pilots but the engineers, aerodynamicists, and support staff in making supersonic flight possible has been widely overlooked. Beyond Blue Skies charts the triumphs and tragedies of the rocket-plane era and the unsung efforts of the men and women who made amazing achievements possible.

Author : Alan Pierce
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 9781591977308
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Sound Barrier written by Alan Pierce and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2005 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of supersonic aerodynamics and the breaking of the sound barrier.