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Sound Barrier: the Rocky Road to Mach 1.0+

Door Peter Caygill

Categorie
Vliegtuigen & Luchtvaart
Boeknummer
#326571-XD9
Titel
Sound Barrier: the Rocky Road to Mach 1.0+
Auteur
Caygill, Peter
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Barnsley : Pen & Sword
Jaar van uitgave
2006
ISBN10
1844154564
ISBN13
9781844154562
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting

As the speed of early aircraft gradually increased there eventually became an awareness during the 1940's, that strange things were occurring at around 500mph. Many later WW2 fighter aircraft were reported to become dangerously uncontrollable in high-speed power dives. Pilot's and aircraft designers were beginning to encounter the sound barrier. We now realize it to be a phenomenon that occurs when the speed of sound is reached and air compressibility demands additional power to break through it. Breaking the sound barrier became one of the biggest challenges to the world's aircraft designers and it took great courage and daring for the test-pilots of that era to find the way through this difficult obstacle. This is the story of how innovative design and pilots learned how to deal with s
... (Lees verder)upersonic flight. It records the many different experimental aircraft and tells of the experiences of those that flew them. Many pilots lost their lives during those dangerous flights but those who survived became legendary.
Pagina's
212
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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