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Higher and Faster: Memoir of a Pioneering Air Force Test Pilot
Higher and Faster Memoir of a Pioneering Air Force Test Pilot
Author: Robert White, Jack L. Summers
In 1961, pilot Robert W. White flew a hypersonic rocket-powered airplane six times faster than the speed of sound and higher than 300,000 feet above the Earth's surface. This is his story. Tracing his childhood on the rough streets of Manhattan during the Depression, his years as a pilot and POW during World War II, and his rise as an experiment...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780786449897
ISBN-10: 0786449896
Publication Date: 12/10/2010
Pages: 268
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Publisher: McFarland
Book Type: Paperback
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