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Chasing the Demon: A Secret History of the Quest for the Sound Barrier, and the Band of American Aces Who Conquered It (Paperback or Softback)

Hampton, Dan

Editore: William Morrow & Company 6/4/2019 (2019)

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Chasing the Demon (Paperback)

Dan Hampton

Editore: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York (2019)

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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the end of World War II, a band of aces gathered in the Mojave Desert on a Top Secret quest to break the sound barriernicknamed "The Demon" by pilots. The true story of what happened in those skies has never been told. Speed. In 1947, it represented the difference between victory and annihilation. After Hiroshima, the ability to deliver a nuclear device to its target faster than ones enemy became the singular obsession of American war planners. And so, in the earliest days of the Cold War, a highly classified program was conducted on a desolate air base in Californias Mojave Desert. Its aim: to push the envelope of flight to new frontiers. There gathered an extraordinary band of pilots, including Second World War aces Chuck Yeager and George Welch, who risked their lives flying experimental aircraft to reach Mach 1, the so-called sound barrier, which pilots called the demon. Shrouding the program in secrecy, the US military reluctantly revealed that the barrier had been broken two months later, after the story was leaked to the press. The full truth has never been fully revealeduntil now. Chasing the Demon, from decorated fighter pilot and acclaimed aviation historian Dan Hampton, tells, for the first time, the extraordinary true story of mankinds quest for Mach 1. Here, of course, is twenty-four-year-old Captain Chuck Yeager, who made history flying the futuristic Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound on October 14, 1947. Officially Yeager was the first to achieve supersonic flight, but drawing on new interviews with survivors of the program, including Yeagers former commander, as well as declassified files, Hampton presents evidence that a fellow AmericanGeorge Welch, a daring fighter pilot who shot down a remarkable sixteen enemy aircraft during the Pacific Warmet the demon first, though he was not favored to wear the laurels, as he was now a civilian test pilot and was not flying the Bell X-1.Chasing the Demon sets the race between Yeager and Welch in the context of aviation history, so that the reader can learn and appreciate their accomplishments as never before. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780062688736

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