Books
Book: The Quest for Mach One, Signed by Test Pilot Chuck Yeager
- Item Number
- 392
- Estimated Value
- 30 USD
- Sold
- 215 USD to SnowyRiver
- Number of Bids
- 34 - Bid History
Item Description
The Quest for Mach One: A First-Person Account of Breaking the Sound Barrier is a compendium of reminiscences, photographs, and expert discussion written by the surviving participants from the program to develop and fly the Bell X-1 rocket plane that broke the sound barrier in 1947. For anyone interested in those heady times when humans pressed beyond known boundaries to travel mach one, this includes accounts from Chuck Yeager, Bob Cardenas, Bob Hoover, Jack Russell, and James Young.
And...this book is signed by the world's premier test pilot, Chuck Yeager.
Condition: New; signed by Chuck Yeager.
Item Special Note
Price is based on item pickup at the NRWA River Resource Center, 592 Main Street in Groton, MA. Shipping is available upon request; buyer is responsible for additional costs of shipping and handling.
Donated By:
David and Mary Dacquino
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