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Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1: Breaking the Sound Barrier

By: Dominick Pisano Robert van der Linden Frank H. Winter
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
ISBN: 0810955350
ISBN-13: 9780810955356
Released: 31 Mar 2006
RRP: £12.95
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The race to break Mach 1.0 - By: -, 06 Jul 2006
This book is essentiallly written by 4 different authors, alll specialists at the Smithsonian & in different aspects of the American attempt to break the sound barrier.

The sections deal with Chuck Yeager, the man, the development of the Bell X-1, the development of the rocket engine, the flights themselves, & finallly what happened to the Bell X-1 record breaking airframe afterwards.

The book is well illustrated with b&w, colour photographs as well as sketches & drawings. I particularly liked the staged photo of Yeager sat in the X-1 on the 50th anniversary of the flight. This contrasts with the photo of a much younger Yeager in the same aircraft 50 years earlier. I also liked the dust jacket cover- a full colour photo of the Bell X-1 cockpit.

My only criticism is the "almost" lack of acknowledgement to the Miles M52 project from which the Bell project was heavily extrapolated.

Worth a read.