high-speed aeronautics

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high-speed aeronautics

Awesome aircraft

2021
An illustrated introduction to the world's fastest aircrafts, discussing history, speed, design and more.

The world's fastest planes

Discusses the history and development of some of the world's fastest airplanes.

The world's fastest planes

Discusses the history and development of some of the world's fastest airplanes.

Into the unknown

the X-1 story
1994
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.

Breaking the sound barrier

the story of Chuck Yeager
2005
Provides a biography of pilot Chuck Yeager and chronicles his efforts to be the first to break the sound barrier.

Flying the frontiers of space

1982
A history of American experimental aircraft and space vehicles from 1947 to the present.

Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier

1997
Relates how the young pilot distinguished himself in World War II and subsequently became the first person to break the sonic barrier.

Breaking the sound barrier

1992
Chronicles the events leading up to the breaking of the sound barrier, focusing on the test pilots who risked their lives to achieve supersonic flight.

The first supersonic flight

Captain Charles E. Yeager breaks the sound barrier
1994
Tells the history of supersonic planes and of Chuck Yeager as the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound.
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