HIGH SPEED FLIGHT

Author: Bill Sweetman

Publisher: Jane's Publishing

Year published: 1983

Pagination: Large format, 144pp, 150 + b/w photos

Condition: v/good in d/w

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Ever since the Wright Brothers showed that it was possible to fly in a heavier-than-air machine, the search for velocity has been the driving force in the evolution of the airplane. Bill Sweetman describes the key technical developments that have allowed aircraft to fly ever faster and he recalls the pioneering designs, racing aircraft, innovative military types and pure research machines, that have pushed the air speed record from the few miles an hour of the Wright Flyer to the hypersonics of the Space Shuttle Orbiter.