Yeager: An Autobiography - Rilegato

Yeager, Chuck; Lanos, Leo

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ISBN 10: 0553050931 ISBN 13: 9780553050936

Casa editrice: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1985

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The pioneering aviator who first broke the sound barrier in 1947 recounts his career as a fighter pilot and test pilot, in a memoir enriched by the reminiscences of his wife and colleagues

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k 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 a

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Book by Chuck Yeager Leo Janos

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• Editore: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0553050931
• ISBN 13: 9780553050936
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida