Yeager: An Autobiography
Chuck Yeager
ISBN 10: 0553050931 ISBN 13: 9780553050936
Editorial: Bantam, 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
De la solapa interior: 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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Título: Yeager: An Autobiography
Editorial: Bantam
Año de publicación: 1985
Encuadernación: Encuadernación de tapa dura
Condición: Acceptable