Product Description
In 1961, Dick Cabela, with his wife, Mary, and his brother, Jim, turned his kitchen table into the foundation of what would become one of the world's top outfitting companies. The origins of this successful business are traced from Dick's bout with polio to his deep love of fishing and hunting that would inspire him. From one small ad in the back of the Casper Tribune (Wyoming) to an annual mailing of 60 million catalogs, Cabela's has served the needs of two generations of outdoor enthusiasts while remaining, at heart, a family business. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Interesting, but incredibly repetitive
I was looking forward to reading this book since I am a loyal customer of Cabela's.While David Cabela had the best of intentions in documenting the rise of his parents' company, he should have left the writing to the experts.That is not to say this book does not have some useful and interesting content.However, I believe the book could have been cut by 2/3 easily and been more interesting and effective. ... Read more

Product Description
Most lifting bodies, or “flying bathtubs” as they were called, were so ugly only an engineer could love them, and yet, what an elegant way to keep wings from burning off in supersonic flight between earth and orbit. Working in their spare time (because they couldn’t initially get official permission), Dale Reed and his team of engineers demonstrated the potential of the design that led to the Space Shuttle.

Wingless Flight takes us behind the scenes with just the right blend of technical detail and fascinating detail (the crash of M2-F2 found new life as the opening credit for TV’s “The Six Million Dollar Man”). The flying bathtub, itself, is finding new life as the proposed escape-pod for the Space Station. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

Very Accurate History
I worked on the X-24 lifting body spacecraft in the late 60s and am referenced in this book.Take my word for it, this a very accurate account of the early days of lifting bodies by both NASA and the USAF.I worked at the Los Angeles Air Force Station in the Space Systems Division at the time.We flight tested a 7 foot version of the X-24 (the SV-5).It was launched from Vandenburg down the Western Test Range with terminal guidance in the Kwajelein Atoll of the Marshall Islands.We then flight tested the X-24 by dropping it from a B-52 ala the X-15.Jerri Gentry was our test pilot and aced each flight test.What a trip!!!!

an amazing story of invention and determination
Dale Reed grows up in a log cabin and sees his first plane land on a lake as a teen. He falls in love, gets his pilot's license at age 16, finds his way to college and then to NASA and for over 50 years designs strange and wonderful things that change the science of flight... and on a showstring budget. Read this to learn about how we all stand on the shoulders of giants. And that planes without wings do fly!

Filled with great pictures too!
There's a great photo of the author holding the first flying model of the M2F1 he built and tested, standing next to the M2F1! That's just one of many. The paperback edition has an update from 2005; what a treat that a program from the 1960s has such an up to date publication. If you're a junky for experimental aircraft you have to have this one.

The Definitive Volume on the Subject!
I've studied these vehicles for years and thought I knew a lot about them.But Dale Reed was there and does a masterful job of melding the history time line with the results of the program.There are probably only ahandful of people who could have written this book which is as rich indetail and "colorful" stories as any reader could want.Ifyou've read the story of the X-15, this is the next logical step.If youhaven't, you need to to really grasp what was going on at Edwards duringthis time.Fascinating!

The definitive history of NASA lifting bodies to date.
A well written book from the engineer that was at the center of this small group of specialized aerospace vehicles.While detailed and somewhat technical, the author still manages to convey the sense of personalexcitement, accomplishment and, at times, frustration experienced byeveryone supporting these vehicles.A must-read for anyone interested inthese vehicles. ... Read more

Product Description
An air combat simulation program with Chuck Yeager featuring aircraft from 3 different eras: WWII, Korean and Vietnam war eras. Plus you can mix and match aircraft and eras in Fantasy Combat ... Read more

Product Description
Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Chuck Yeager, Joe Foss, Robin Olds, Edward O'hare, Gabby Gabreski, Pappy Boyington, Vermont Garrison, List of World War Ii Aces From the United States, John F. Bolt, Robert S. Johnson, Harrison Thyng, Kenneth M. Taylor, Clinton D. "Casey" Vincent, Roy Marlin Voris, Harold E. Comstock, Richard Bong, Jefferson J. Deblanc, Hubert Zemke, John S. Loisel, James E. Swett, George Andrew Davis, Jr., Marion Eugene Carl, Thomas Mcguire, Robert E. Galer, Bud Mahurin, John Lucian Smith, Fred J. Christensen, George C. Axtell, Donald Blakeslee, Steve Pisanos, Harold W. Bauer, John C. Meyer, James E. Hill, Charles Bond, David C. Schilling, David Mccampbell, Robert Lee Scott, Jr., William W. Momyer, George Welch, David Lee "Tex" Hill, Boyd Wagner, Bolesław Gładych, John C. "Pappy" Herbst, John B. England, Ernest Bankey, Oscar F. Perdomo, John R. Alison, William A. Shomo, Lee Archer, Alexander Vraciu, Edward "Porky" Cragg, Albert Baumler, Robert M. Hanson, Pug Southerland, Duane Beeson, Kenneth H. Dahlberg, Dominic Salvatore Gentile, Robert T. Smith, Cook Cleland, Kenneth A. Walsh, John W. Vogt, Jr., John Thomas Blackburn, Chesley G. Peterson, Donald "Flash" Gordon, Art Donahue, Bud Anderson, Robert W. Aschenbrener, Raymond S. Wetmore, Bruce K. Holloway, Sydney S. Woods, Carl Raymond Davis, George Preddy, Arthur Chin, Edward F. Rector, Pierce Mckennon, Neel E. Kearby, Arthur Ray Hawkins, Jimmy Davies, James "Earthquake Mcgoon" Mcgovern Jr., Hampton E. Boggs, Wayne Morris, Donald S. Lopez, Sr., William R. Dunn, Ralph K. Hofer, Eugene A. Valencia, Jr., W. Paul Thayer, Charles R. Stimpson, David Thwaites, Fred Bardshar, Norman C. Skogstad, Jay T. Robbins, Noel Gayler, Henry Wise, Jr., Herschel Green, William N. Leonard, Charles Older, Robert Neale, John Trevor Godfrey. Source: Wikipedia. Free update...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7200956 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Neil Armstrong, Chuck Yeager, Michael Collins, Jimmy Doolittle, Elliot See, Milo Burcham, Frank Borman, Caleb V. Haynes, Benjamin S. Kelsey, James Stockdale, Leroy Grumman, Guy M. Townsend, Albert Scott Crossfield, Gordon Cooper, Eugene Peyton Deatrick, Kenneth O. Chilstrom, Jerauld R. Gentry, Jack Ridley, Fred Ascani, Bob Hoover, Marion Eugene Carl, Robert Michael White, David M. Jones, Thomas Patten Stafford, Charles Duke, Deke Slayton, Thomas Etholen Selfridge, David P. Cooley, Ellison Onizuka, Mark E. Kelly, Steve Pisanos, Michael A. Baker, Kevin P. Chilton, Robert Cardenas, Joseph Albert Walker, John E. Blaha, Arthur K. Murray, George Welch, C. Gordon Fullerton, Richard A. Searfoss, Robert L. Stephens, Eileen Collins, George J. Marrett, Tony Levier, Richard E. Lawyer, Richard F. Gordon, Jr., Karol J. Bobko, James Lore Murray, Frank Kendall Everest, Jr., Alexander Vraciu, Glen Edwards, Curtis Brown, Donn F. Eisele, Robert Crippen, Robert Curbeam, Richard O. Covey, William J. Knight, Robert F. Overmyer, Joe Engle, Brent W. Jett, Jr., Fitzhugh L. Fulton, Iven Carl Kincheloe, Jr., Ronald W. Yates, Brian Duffy, Scott J. Kelly, Alvin M. Johnston, Dick Rutan, Chalmers Goodlin, Joseph C. Mcconnell, Milton Orville Thompson, Jimmie Mattern, Bud Anderson, Michael James Adams, James M. Taylor, Charles Bassett, Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., Forrest S. Petersen, Fred Haise, Einar Enevoldson, Mark Edward Bradley, Thomas Akers, Brian Binnie, Roy D. Bridges, Jr., Francis G. Neubeck, Theodore Freeman, Mike Melvill, Lachlan Macleay, Duane G. Carey, William H. Dana, Robert E. Thacker, Terry W. Virts, John L. Finley, Alvin S. White, Bruce Peterson, Amanda Simpson, Richard E. Gray, Ployer Peter Hill, Albert Boyd, Lou Everett, Milburn G. Apt, Ken Bowersox, Robert A. Rushworth, John B. Mckay, Donald S. Lopez, Sr., Doug Shane, Graydon Evans, Carl Browne Squier, Robert Stanley, John Casper, Frederick Brossy, Thomas Mcmurtry, Darryl Greena...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21247 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: George H. W. Bush, Neil Armstrong, Chuck Yeager, Francis Gary Powers, John Mccain, Joseph Kittinger, Pete Peterson, Donald Pleasence, Early Life and Military Career of John Mccain, Werner Mölders, Ian Smith, Tammy Duckworth, Douglas Bader, James Robinson Risner, Pappy Boyington, George Thomas Coker, Kenneth Walker, Romualdas Marcinkus, Leo K. Thorsness, James Stockdale, Bud Day, Dieter Dengler, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Jefferson J. Deblanc, Gerhard Barkhorn, Harry Day, Marion Eugene Carl, Gerald Stapleton, Robert E. Galer, Russell Foskett, Merian C. Cooper, Leon Vance, Sam Johnson, Walter G. R. Hinchliffe, William P. Lawrence, Steve Pisanos, Adrian Goldsmith, John C. Morgan, Hedley Fowler, Darrell R. Lindsey, Sydney Dowse, Jimmy Buckley, Leroy W. Stutz, James H. Kasler, Lance Sijan, James Henry Whalen, Eugene Debruin, Alexander Rutskoy, Hilliard A. Wilbanks, Ronald Adam, Harl Pease, Alexander Vraciu, Jeremiah Denton, Edward "Porky" Cragg, Tony Gaze, George H. Gay, Jr., Pug Southerland, Kenneth H. Dahlberg, Wally Floody, Ron Arad, Tom Greenway, Charles J. Loring, Jr., John Alcock, Brian Shul, Forrest L. Vosler, Howard Cannon, Robert W. Aschenbrener, Gerald O. Young, Marius Eriksen, Jr., Cengiz Topel, Joe Kernan, Bobby Goodman, Scott O'grady, Werner Hosewinckel Christie, Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman, Walter E. Truemper, James Edwin Ray, Jorgen Thalbitzer, Bert Shepard, Duane W. Martin, John Peters, Everett Alvarez, Jr., James 'dixie' Deans, Fred Hargesheimer, Brian Paddon, Walter Morison, Nguyen Quy An, George Barclay, Pisidhi Indradat, Rudolf Perešin, William Harrell Nellis, Joseph I. Johnson, Howard Wardle, Håkon Kyllingmark, Ly Tong, Charles Herrick, Owen J. Baggett, Ernest C. Brace, Ernst Valenta, Joseph C. Cheney. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 653. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=43715 ... Read more

Product Description
Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (born February 13, 1923) is a retired General in the United States Air Force and noted test pilot. He is widely considered to be the first pilot to travel faster than sound (1947). Originally retiring as a brigadier general, Yeager was promoted to major general on the Air Force's retired list 20 years later for his military achievements. His career began in World War II as a private in the U.S. Army Air Forces. After serving as an aircraft mechanic, in September, 1942 he entered enlisted pilot training and upon graduation was promoted to the rank of Flight Officer (WW 2 U.S. Army Air Forces rank equivalent to Warrant Officer) and became a P-51 Mustang fighter pilot. After the war he became a test pilot of many kinds of aircraft and rocket planes. Yeager was the first man to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1 at an altitude of 13,700 m (45,000 ft). Although Scott Crossfield was the first man to fly faster than Mach 2 in 1953, Yeager shortly thereafter exceeded Mach 2.4. ... Read more

Product Description
Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Neil Armstrong, Albert Scott Crossfield, Howard Hughes, Hanna Reitsch, James H. Doolittle, Jean Casale, Chuck Yeager, Ivan Fiodorov, Jacques Grangette, Vladimir Iliouchine, Grigori Baratchivadzé, Joseph Albert Walker, Vladimir Seriogine, Leroy Grumman, Robert Michael White, Robert A. Rushworth, John B. Mckay, Yvan Littolff, Jacques Rosay, Amet-Khan Soultan, Milton Orville Thompson, Lioubov Golantchikova. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Neil Alden Armstrong, né le 5 août 1930 à Wapakoneta dans l'Ohio, est un astronaute, pilote d'essai, aviateur de l'United States Navy et professeur américain. Il est le premier homme à avoir posé le pied sur la Lune le 21 juillet 1969. Son premier vol spatial à bord de Gemini 8 eut lieu en 1966, vol pour lequel il portait le rôle de pilote-commandant. Pendant cette mission, il effectua le premier amarrage manuel de deux engins spatiaux avec le pilote « Dave » Scott. Le second vol spatial d'Armstrong fut en tant que commandant de la célèbre mission Apollo 11 le 20 juillet 1969. Lors de cette mission, lui et Buzz Aldrin sont descendus à la surface de la Lune dans le module lunaire Apollo et ont consacré deux heures vingt à explorer pendant que Michael Collins est resté en orbite dans le module de commande et de service Apollo. Armstrong reçut la Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Avant de devenir astronaute, ce diplômé de l'Université Purdue travaillait dans la marine des États-Unis et a participé à la guerre de Corée. Après la guerre, il a servi comme pilote d'essai à la High-Speed Flight Station du National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), site désormais connu comme le Dryden Flight Research Center, où il a effectué plus de 900 vols sur plus de 200 appar...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

Product Description
Includes original documentation, disc, artwork and manual. ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Gus Grissom, Chuck Yeager, Michael Collins, Edward Higgins White, Frank Borman, Richard Douglas Husband, Dick Scobee, Gabby Gabreski, Guy M. Townsend, Richard Bong, Gordon Cooper, Eugene Peyton Deatrick, Kenneth O. Chilstrom, Jerauld R. Gentry, Jack Ridley, Fred Ascani, David Scott, Bob Hoover, Robert Michael White, James Irwin, Edgar Mitchell, Brewster H. Shaw, Thomas Patten Stafford, Charles Duke, Deke Slayton, Ellison Onizuka, Steve Pisanos, Jerry L. Ross, Susan J. Helms, Henry Hartsfield, Kevin P. Chilton, Robert Cardenas, James Mcdivitt, Michael Fincke, Steven W. Lindsey, David M. Walker, John E. Blaha, Arthur K. Murray, Charles J. Precourt, Ken Mattingly, C. Gordon Fullerton, Robert L. Stephens, Eileen Collins, George J. Marrett, Richard H. Truly, James Alan Abrahamson, Mark L. Polansky, Sidney M. Gutierrez, John M. Loh, Tony Levier, Richard E. Lawyer, Steven R. Nagel, Karol J. Bobko, Alfred Worden, Donald J. Kutyna, Frank Kendall Everest, Jr., Gregory C. Johnson, Carl J. Meade, Jon Mcbride, Robert T. Herres, Glen Edwards, Curtis Brown, Donn F. Eisele, Robert Crippen, Ronald J. Grabe, Lee Archambault, Richard Mullane, Richard O. Covey, William J. Knight, Robert F. Overmyer, Joe Engle, Fitzhugh L. Fulton, Carl E. Walz, Pamela Melroy, Gregory H. Johnson, Stuart Roosa, Christopher Loria, Ronald W. Yates, George D. Zamka, Brian Duffy, Terence T. Henricks, Kevin A. Ford, Donald R. Mcmonagle, James M. Kelly, Michael James Adams, James M. Taylor, Charles Bassett, Rex J. Walheim, Frederick W. Sturckow, Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., Fred Haise, Eric A. Boe, Guy Gardner, Thomas Akers, Roy D. Bridges, Jr., Francis G. Neubeck, Theodore Freeman, Donald H. Peterson, James Dutton, Lachlan Macleay, Duane G. Carey, Robert E. Thacker, Terry W. Virts, John L. Finley, Scott J. Horowitz, Bruce Peterson, Loren Shriver, Dominic A. Antonelli, Milburn G. Apt, Ken Bowersox, Edward Givens, Robert A. Rushworth, William G. Gregory, Donald ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=773688 ... Read more

Product Description
Kapitel: Neil Armstrong, Juri Alexejewitsch Gagarin, Virgil Grissom, John Watts Young, Hanna Reitsch, Chuck Yeager, Alan Shepard, Thomas Reiter, Swetlana Jewgenjewna Sawizkaja, Richard Perlia, Erich Klöckner, Ernest Archdeacon, Lothar Sieber, Jerry Ross, Paul Teste, Joseph Henry Engle, Gordon Cooper, Deke Slayton, Melitta Schenk Gräfin Von Stauffenberg, Walter Schirra, Kevin P. Chilton, Alan Lavern Bean, James Craig Adamson, William Cameron Mccool, Ronald John Grabe, Joseph Albert Walker, Robert Donald Cabana, John Glenn, Robert Lee Gibson, Jean-Loup Chrétien, Anatoli Semjonowitsch Lewtschenko, Richard Oswalt Covey, Alvin White, Kenneth Donald Cameron, Daniel Charles Brandenstein, Michael Lloyd Coats, Frederick Drew Gregory, William Francis Readdy, Kevin Richard Kregel, Charles Joseph Precourt, Charles Frank Bolden, Michael John Smith, John Howard Casper, Joachim P. Kuettner, Brian Duffy, Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Scott Jay Horowitz, Bryan Daniel O'connor, Richard Noel Richards, Terrence Wade Wilcutt, Erich Warsitz, Pierre Joseph Thuot, Albert Scott Crossfield, Susan Leigh Still-Kilrain, Donald Ray Mcmonagle, Charles Gordon Fullerton, Georgi Timofejewitsch Beregowoi, James Donald Halsell, Roy Dunbard Bridges, Stephen Scot Oswald, Robert Franklyn Overmyer, Stuart Roosa, John Oliver Creighton, Robert Lee Stewart, Michail Michailowitsch Gromow, Bruce Edward Melnick, Heini Dittmar, Ludwig Hofmann, Richard Alan Searfoss, Terence Thomas Henricks, Frederick Hamilton Hauck, Michael Richard Uram Clifford, Clifton Williams, Michael Melvill, Stanley David Griggs, Gérard Guillaumaud, Robert Louis Behnken, Alan Goodwin Poindexter, Carl Joseph Meade, Lloyd Blaine Hammond, Sergei Nikolajewitsch Anochin, Donald Edward Williams, Alexander Wassiljewitsch Fedotow, Igor Petrowitsch Wolk, Mark Lasarewitsch Gallai, Barry Eugene Wilmore, Manley Lanier Carter, Robert Clyde Springer, Michael James Foreman, Charles Bassett, Randolph James Bresnik, Micha...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

Product Description
Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Wesley Clark, John McCain, John Kerry, Audie Murphy, Hoyt S. Vandenberg, John W. O'Daniel, Chuck Yeager, Douglas MacArthur, H. Norman Schwarzkopf junior, Lemuel C. Shepherd junior, Courtney Hicks Hodges, James L. Jones, 17. US-Luftlandedivision, Omar N. Bradley, Roy Lee Williams, Bantz J. Craddock, Philippe de Hauteclocque, Thomas Holcomb, Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Pierre Clostermann, Creighton W. Abrams, Paul Moore, Richard Marcinko, Clifton B. Cates, Bernard W. Rogers, Thomas E. White, Frederick C. Weyand, Derek Allhusen, William Hood Simpson, Walton Walker, John R. Galvin, Charles Willeford, Maxwell D. Taylor, Melvin Alvah Traylor junior, William P. Yarborough, Joseph Kittinger, 81. US-Infanteriedivision, Reuben H. Tucker, James H. Webb, George A. Joulwan, Pat Tillman, Sam Ervin, Charles Sweeney, John T. Walton, Lloyd J. Austin III., James Stockdale, Michel Thomas, Silver Star, Lawrence Kermit White, Edward Crook, Terry de la Mesa Allen,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Wesley Kanne Clark, KBE (* 23. Dezember 1944 in Chicago, Illinois) ist ein General a. D. der US Army. Als Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) war er 1999 auch Oberbefehlshaber der NATO-Streitkräfte im Kosovokrieg. Im Jahre 2004 bemühte er sich um die US-Präsidentschaftskandidatur der Demokraten, gab aber nach den mäßigen Erfolgen in den Vorwahlen auf. Clarks Vater, Benjamin J. Kanne, war ein demokratischer Stadtrat von Chicago, ein Veteran des Ersten Weltkriegs und Jurist. Als Clark vier Jahre alt war, starb sein Vater. Die Familie stammt von russischen Einwanderern ab. Im Alter von sieben Jahren, während des Kalten Krieges, begann Clark Russisch zu lernen, weil er die andere...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=178441 ... Read more

Product Description
This unique electronic book on CD-ROM has the finest collection of documents, photographs, and resources available anywhere about the X-1 supersonic test airplane, the NASA lifting body test program, and two aviation and space pioneers, Scott Crossfield and Chuck Yeager. In addition, there is extensive coverage of the historic X-15 USAF/NASA rocket airplane program.

X-1 AIRPLANE: Beginning in 1946, two XS-1 experimental research aircraft (later redesignated X-1s) conducted pioneering tests at Muroc Army Air Field (now Edwards Air Force Base) in California to obtain flight data on conditions in the transonic speed range. These early tests culminated on October 14, 1947, in the first piloted flight faster than Mach 1.0, the speed of sound. The XS-1 was the first high-speed aircraft built purely for aviation research purposes. The model was never intended for production. The XS-1 was designed largely in accordance with specifications provided by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) [now National Aeronautics and Space Administration], paid for by the Army Air Forces, and built by Bell Aircraft Inc. The XS-1 #2 (serial number 46-063) was flight tested by the NACA to provide design data for later production high-performance aircraft. The research techniques used in the X-1 program became the pattern for all subsequent X-craft projects. The NACA X-1 procedures and personnel also helped lay the foundation of America's space program in the 1960s. The X-1 project defined and solidified the post-war cooperative union between U.S. military needs, industrial capabilities, and research facilities. The flight data collected by the NACA in the X-1 tests then provided a basis for American aviation supremacy in the latter half of the 20th century.

LIFTING BODY PROGRAM: Between 1963 and 1975, eight lifting-body configurations were flown at the NASA Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB. They varied tremendously from the unpowered, bulbous, lightweight plywood M2-F1 to the rocket-powered, extra-sleek, all-metal supersonic X-24B. Some configurations, such as the M2-F2, not only pushed the limits of both design engineers and test pilots but also were dangerous to fly. Film footage of the 1967 crash of the M2-F2, after test pilot Bruce Peterson lost control of this particularly "angry machine," was used about two years later as the lead-in to weekly episodes of a popular television series, The Six-Million-Dollar Man, which ran for about six years. Although the M2-F2 crash was spectacular enough to inspire the concept for a popular television series, it was the only serious accident that occurred over the slightly more than twelve years of lifting-body flight-testing. But danger has always lurked at the edge of flight innovation. All eight of these wingless wonders, the lifting bodies, were considered the flying prototypes for future spacecraft that could land like an airplane after the searing heat of reentry from outer space. The precursors of today's Shuttle, the lifting bodies provided the technical and operational engineering data that has shaped the space transportation systems of today and tomorrow

This CD-ROM is packed with over 14,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. There are over 240 image files with extraordinary photographs of the X-15, and 66 movie files in the MOV and MPG computer video formats. The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection of government documents and material.

Our news and educational discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding spe ... Read more

Product Description
Kapitel: Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Carl A. Spaatz, Chuck Yeager, Boris Pash, James Stewart, Daniel P. Leaf, Curtis E. Lemay, Victor E. Renuart Junior, Scott O'grady, Joseph W. Ralston, Lauris Norstad, Kevin P. Chilton, Eugene Bullard, Robert Rosenthal, Lance L. Smith, Francis Gary Powers, Norton A. Schwartz, George Welch, Claire Lee Chennault, Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, Charles A. Gabriel, T. Michael Moseley, Joseph Kittinger, Gail Halvorsen, Lewis H. Brereton, James Harold Doolittle, John Varick Tunney, Henry H. Arnold, Lincoln D. Faurer, John A. Samford, Darrell R. Lindsey, Jeanne M. Holm, Paul Tibbets, Alan Eugene Magee, Richard B. Myers, Charles Sweeney, John P. Jumper, Rudolf Anderson, Hugh Merle Elmendorf, Nicole Malachowski, Douglas M. Fraser, Edward Pimental, Lou Zocchi, Claude Eatherly, William Harrell Nellis, Glen Edwards, Billy Mitchell. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (May 20, 1908 - July 2, 1997) was an American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one in competition and receiving one Lifetime Achievement award. He was a major MGM contract star. He also had a noted military career, a World War II and Vietnam War veteran, who rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force Reserve. Throughout his seven decades in Hollywood, Stewart cultivated a versatile career and recognized screen image in such classics as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story, Harvey, It's a Wonderful Life, Rear Window, Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He is the most represented leading actor on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) and AFI's 10 Top 10 lists. He is also the most represented leading actor on the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time list presented by Entertainment Weekly. As...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Wright Brothers, George Cayley, Chuck Yeager, Anthony Fokker, Charles Lindbergh, Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, Amelia Earhart, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Louis Blériot, Montgolfier Brothers, Ferdinand Von Zeppelin, Burt Rutan, Steve Fossett, Jeannette Piccard, Gustave Whitehead, Hubert Latham, C.w.a. Scott, Zhuge Liang, Robert Campbell Reeve, Sophie Blanchard, Thomas F. Hamilton, Moye W. Stephens, Igor Sikorsky, Enea Bossi, Sr., Glenn Curtiss, Luis Farell, Charles Kingsford Smith, Alexander P. de Seversky, Richard Pearse, Moncrieff and Hood, Marie Marvingt, Robert Brothers, Dick Merrill, Wiley Post, Early Birds of Aviation, Heriberto Gil Martínez, Henri Rougier, List of Aviation Pioneers, Alcock and Brown, James Fitzmaurice, Ernest Archdeacon, Amy Johnson, Alfred V. Verville, Léon Levavasseur, Otto Lilienthal, Lawrence Hargrave, Walter G. R. Hinchliffe, Elsie Mackay, Tony Jannus, Steve Pisanos, Aldasoro Brothers, Henri Coandă, Charles Rumney Samson, Phoebe Omlie, Abbas Ibn Firnas, Clément Ader, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Eilmer of Malmesbury, Eduard Spelterini, William C. Ocker, Hilda Hewlett, Louis Paulhan, Hélène Dutrieu, Reuben Hollis Fleet, Octave Chanute, John Wise, Bobbi Trout, Neta Snook, Jan Nagórski, Thomas Scott Baldwin, Emile Taddéoli, Jacob Earl Fickel, Raymonde de Laroche, William Lindsay Everard, Blanche Stuart Scott, Edmond Thieffry, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Tryggve Gran, Percy Pilcher, Philip Orin Parmelee, C. Donald Bateman, Archie League, Linious "Mac" Mcgee, Alexander Pfitzner, Ernest Failloubaz, John Cyril Porte, Jan Wnęk, Eugene Burton Ely, Viola Gentry, Winfield Bertrum Kinner, Paul Bikle, Herbert Rawdon, Kwon Ki-Ok, Frederick Marriott, List of Firsts in Aviation, Paul W. Beck, William Abner Eddy, René Grandjean, Friedrich Hermann Wölfert, Diego Marín Aguilera, Harold E. Thompson, Harold Gatty, Traian Vuia, Cromwell Dixon, Manly-Balzer Engine, Alliott Verdon Roe, Pr...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=85234 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Chuck Yeager, J. S. Pridemore. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (born February 13, 1923) is a retired major general in the United States Air Force and noted test pilot. He is widely considered to be the first pilot to travel faster than sound (1947). Originally retiring as a brigadier general, Yeager was promoted to major general on the Air Force's retired list 20 years later for his military achievements. His career began in World War II as a private in the United States Army Air Forces. After serving as an aircraft mechanic, in September 1942 he entered enlisted pilot training and upon graduation was promoted to the rank of flight officer (the World War II USAAF equivalent to warrant officer) and became a P-51 Mustang fighter pilot. After the war he became a test pilot of many kinds of aircraft and rocket planes. Yeager was the first man to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1 at an altitude of 13,700 m (45,000 ft). Although Scott Crossfield was the first man to fly faster than Mach 2 in 1953, Yeager shortly thereafter set a new record of Mach 2.44. He later commanded fighter squadrons and wings in Germany and in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, and in recognition of the outstanding performance ratings of those units he then was promoted to brigadier general. Yeager's flying career spans more than sixty years and has taken him to every corner of the globe, including the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. Yeager was born to farming-parents Susie Mae and Albert Hal Yeager in Myra, West Virginia, and graduated from high school in Hamlin, West Virginia. Yeager had two brothers, Roy and Hal, Jr., and two sisters, Doris Ann (accidentally kille...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6185 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Curtis Lemay, Barry Goldwater, Buzz Aldrin, Chuck Yeager, Edward Higgins White, Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, Jimmy Doolittle, Frank Borman, Steve Fossett, Jeannette Piccard, Jacqueline Cochran, Italo Balbo, Albert Scott Crossfield, Alexander P. de Seversky, Jim Lovell, Wiley Post, Bernt Balchen, Amy Johnson, Wally Schirra, Thomas Patten Stafford, Clyde Edward Pangborn, Geoffrey de Havilland, David C. Schilling, Allen E. Paulson, Louise Thaden, Jean Batten, Frank Kendall Everest, Jr., Robert Crippen, William J. Knight, Joe Engle, Fitzhugh L. Fulton, Laura Ingalls, Malcolm Forbes, Jerrie Cobb, Paul J. Weitz, John Cunningham, Jeana Yeager, David Hempleman-Adams, Bertrand Piccard, Alvin S. White, John Currier, Winifred Spooner, Brian Trubshaw, Ed Musick, Maryse Bastié, Sheila Scott, Jacqueline Auriol, André Edouard Turcat, Mario de Bernardi, Jennifer Murray, Brooke Knapp, Brian Jones, Gaby Kennard, Lois Mccallin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 374. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Amelia Mary Earhart (pronounced ); (born July 24, 1897; missing July 2, 1937; declared legally dead January 5, 1939) was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Earhart joined the faculty of the world-famous Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. During a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=85234 ... Read more