The X-Planes is the result of the author's life-long interest in what many consider to be the world's most exotic aircraft family. Encompassing everything from the rudimentary Bell X-1 supersonic research aircraft to the yet to be built X-31A designed for trans atmospheric flight at near orbital velocities, the book contains a detailed and authoritative accounting of every single x-designated aircraft ever built. Many documents were declassified specifically for use as references for this publication.

The X Planes: X-1 to X-31

Science & Math

JAY MILLER

Chuck Yeager

Technology

AEROFAX, INC.

General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all -- the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . .the World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang . . .the hero who defined a certain quality that all hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era aimed to achieve: the right stuff. Now Chuck Yeager tells his whole incredible life story with the same "wide-open, full throttle" approach that has marked his astonishing career. What it was really like enaging in do-or-die dogfights over Nazi Europe. How after being shot over occupied France, Yeager somehow managed to escape. The amazing behind-the-scenes story of smashing the sound barrier despite cracked ribs from a riding accident days before. The entire story is here, in Yeager's own words, and in wondeful insights from his wife and those friends and colleagues who have known him best. It is the personal and public story of a man who settled for nothing less than excellence, a one-of-a-kind portrait of a true American hero. From the Paperback edition.

Yeager: An Autobiography

Leo Janos

Humor & Entertainment

Bantam]

Press On!: Further Adventures in the Good Life

An intriguing portrait of the life of a rugged individualist covers everything from flying stunts and tales of travel to fishing advice, family stories, and a live-for-the moment philosophy

Charles Leerhsen

Biographies & Memoirs

BANTAM BOOKS

General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all - the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound. The World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang. The hero who defined a certain quality that all the hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era aimed to achieve: the right stuff. Now Chuck Yeager tells his whole incredible life story with the same "wide-open, full throttle" approach that has marked his astonishing career. What it was really like engaging in do-or-die dogfights over Nazi Europe. How after being shot down over occupied France, Yeager somehow managed to escape. The amazing behind-the-scenes story of smashing the sound barrier despite cracked ribs from a riding accident days before. The entire story is here, in Yeager's own words, and in wonderful insights from his wife and those friends and colleagues who have known him est. it is the personal and public story of a man who settled for nothing less than excellence, a one-of-a-kind portrait of a true American hero.

Yeager

General Chuck Yeager was the greatest test pilot of them all—the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . . the World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang . . . the hero who defined a certain quality that all hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era aimed to achieve: the right stuff. Now Chuck Yeager tells his whole incredible life story with the same "wide-open, full throttle" approach that has marked his astonishing career. What it was really like enaging in do-or-die dogfights over Nazi Europe. How after being shot over occupied France, Yeager somehow managed to escape. The amazing behind-the-scenes story of smashing the sound barrier despite cracked ribs from a riding accident days before. The entire story is here, in Yeager's own words, and in wondeful insights from his wife and those friends and colleagues who have known him best. It is the personal and public story of a man who settled for nothing less than excellence, a one-of-a-kind portrait of a true American hero.

The legendary daredevil conqueror of the sound barrier and other aviation records shares adventures of a different ilk in a personal account of his account of his fishing, hunting, and hiking trips all over the world

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

In a compendium of reminiscences, photographs, and experts' discussions, the surviving participants in the development and flying of the Bell X-1 rocket plane that broke the sound barrier in 1947 recount their experiences. 17,500 first printing.

The Quest for Mach One: A First-Person Account of Breaking the Sound Barrier

Bob Cardenas

Bob Hoover

Jack Russell

James Young

Penguin Studio

101 Chuck YEAGER-Isms: Wit & Wisdom from America's Hero

Victoria Yeager

Right Stuff Publishing, The

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