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.
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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.
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