Across the High Frontier

✍ Scribed by William R. Lundgren

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Year: 1955
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The amazing full throttle heroics of the man who had the stuff to fly faster than any before him. Climb into the cockpit with the greatest test pilot of them all, the man who first shattered the sound barrier. Here is the story of Chuck Yeager and the X-1 the “coolest pilot ever” and the plane he was born to fly. Across the High Frontier looks back at Yeager’s incredible flamboyant career in World War II when he was shot down over France and escaped the Nazis. It tells how and why he was chosen, from among an elite fraternity of flyers, to conquer new heights and new horizons—to penetrate the unknown at ultrasonic speeds. It is a story of courage and resourcefulness, of a country boy who rose to touch the heavens… ande of an American hero whose story inspired millions.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Prologue, September, 1953
Part One
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Part Two
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Part Three
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Epilogue, September, 1953
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✦ Subjects

NASA; NACA; Chuck; Yeager; X-1; Bell X-1; Test Pilot; Edwards; Muroc; Supersonic