Supersonic Flight: Breaking the Sound Barrier and Beyond : The Story of the Bell X-1 and Douglas D-558

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Summary: High Speed Flight
Review: Richard Hallion is the master of Aviation History. This book looks closely at the USAF's X-1 program and the US Navy's D-558 program and examines the NACA's roll in shaping the avaition research being undertaken at that time.

An interesting historical overview that gives insight in to how the USAF and Navy went about avaition research in their own ways. The book also covers areas of the much less topical D-558, a progam that was well and trully overshadowed by the Bell X-1.