Yeager: An Autobiography

Chuck Yeager

ISBN 10: 0553050931 / ISBN 13: 9780553050936

Editore: Bantam, 1985

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Codice articolo 00097012460

Riassunto:

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

Dal risvolto di copertina interno: 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.<br><br><br><br>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.<br><br><br><br>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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Titolo: Yeager: An Autobiography
Casa editrice: Bantam
Data di pubblicazione: 1985
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Good