Into the unknown : the X-1 story /
Rotundo, Louis C.
Into the unknown : the X-1 story / Louis Rotundo. - Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1994. - xi, 324 p., [16] p. of plates : ill ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Booklist. Choice. Reference and Research Book News. Booklist, November 1996. Choice, February 2009. Reference and Research Book News, April 2009. Science Books & Films (A.A.A.S.), April 1961.
History of the X-1 program from the origins of high-speed research in the 1930s to Chuck Yeager's flight through the sound barrier on October 14, 1947.
Adult. Adult Follett Library Resources.
1560983051 (acid-free paper) 9781560983057
93015989
Bell X-1 (Supersonic plane)
High-speed aeronautics--History.
Supersonic planes--Research--History.--United States
Aeronautics--History.
Bell X-1 (Supersonic plane)
Supersonic planes--Research.
TL551.5 / .R68 1994
629.132/305/0973
Into the unknown : the X-1 story / Louis Rotundo. - Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1994. - xi, 324 p., [16] p. of plates : ill ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Booklist. Choice. Reference and Research Book News. Booklist, November 1996. Choice, February 2009. Reference and Research Book News, April 2009. Science Books & Films (A.A.A.S.), April 1961.
History of the X-1 program from the origins of high-speed research in the 1930s to Chuck Yeager's flight through the sound barrier on October 14, 1947.
Adult. Adult Follett Library Resources.
1560983051 (acid-free paper) 9781560983057
93015989
Bell X-1 (Supersonic plane)
High-speed aeronautics--History.
Supersonic planes--Research--History.--United States
Aeronautics--History.
Bell X-1 (Supersonic plane)
Supersonic planes--Research.
TL551.5 / .R68 1994
629.132/305/0973