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Aces Wild: The Race For Mach 1

Author: Blackburn, Al
Hardback; Book; Photographs, Index
240 pages
Published: November 1998
Scholarly Resources
ISBN: 0842027327

They were in a two-man race to break the sound barrier. It was October 1947, a time before high-speed digital computers, when predictions of what would happen to fighter pilots' planes at such speeds were nebulous. Chuck Yeager and George Welch, two great fighter pilots from World War II, were about to explore the unknown in the bright blue sky over the Mojave Desert. Aces Wild: The Race for Mach 1 is the story of these two courageous men who dueled to become the first to fly at supersonic speed -- Mach 1 -- in an aircraft.Al Blackburn, a test pilot during the Korean War and later for North American Aviation, attempts to set the record straight as to who actually broke the sound barrier first.Aviation buffs and all those who enjoyed Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff will be capThis work seeks to set the record straight as to who broke the sound barrier first. It is the story of two fighter pilots, Chuck Yeager and George Welch. The author also traces the history of fighter planes from the start of World War II to the transition to jets in the 1950s.

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