text Breaking the sound barrier
- Summary
- For a long time, aviation experts and pilots thought aircraft couldn’t fly faster than the speed of sound. They believed there was a point where the plane and pilot would just explode! They called it the sound barrier. In 1947, Chuck Yeager proved... Read more
- Contents
- Fast, faster, fastest! -- Faster than the speed of sound? -- Seriously supersonic -- Boom! -- The extraspecial X-1 -- Up in the air with Yeager -- Lucky number 9 -- Mightier Mach 2 -- New shape -- Traveling with the wind and stars -- Fast and furi... Read more
- Format
- text
- Description
- 32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
- Publisher
- Gareth Stevens Publishing 2015
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | J 629 NIV in Juvenile Nonfiction | Available |
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