Breaking the sound barrier / by Heather Moore Niver.
Material type:![Text](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1482420309 (pbk.)
- 1482420317 (library binding)
- 9781482420302 (pbk.)
- 9781482420319 (library binding)
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 629.1323 N735 | Available | 33111007988070 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
For a long time, aviation experts and pilots thought aircraft couldn't fly faster than the speed of sound. They believed there was a point where the plane and pilot would just explode! They called it the sound barrier. In 1947, Chuck Yeager proved that to be untrue, and in 2012, a skydiver broke the sound barrier without a plane to fly in! From the challenges of airplane technology to daredevil parachutists, the story of breaking the sound barrier is one that will have readers on the edge of their seat. Full-color images and detailed sidebars take history to new heights.
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.
Fast, faster, fastest! -- Faster than the speed of sound? -- Seriously supersonic -- Boom! -- The extraspecial X-1 -- Up in the air with Yeager -- Lucky number 9 -- Mightier Mach 2 -- New shape -- Traveling with the wind and stars -- Fast and furious free falls -- Supersonic skydives -- Hypersonic!.