The Race for Mach 1
Blackburn, Al
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Hardcover
240 pages
Photographs, Index
Published: 1998
Publisher: Scholarly Resources
ISBN / EAN: 0842027327
They were in a two-man race to break the sound barrier. It was October 1947, a time before high-speed digital computers, when predictions of what would happen to fighter pilots' planes at such speeds were nebulous. Chuck Yeager and George Welch, two great
