Dan Hampton

Chasing the Demon (eBook, ePUB)

A Secret History of the Quest for the Sound Barrier, and the Band of American Aces Who Conquered It

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At the dawn of the Cold War, a band of World War II aces gathered in the Mojave Desert on a top secret quest to break the sound barrier. The true story of what happened in those skies has never been told.

Speed. In 1947, it represented the difference between victory and annihilation.

After Hiroshima, the ability to deliver a nuclear device to its target faster than one's enemy became the singular obsession of American war planners. And so, in the earliest days of the Cold War, a highly classified program was conducted on a desolate air base in California's Mojave Desert. Its aim: to push the envelope of flight to new frontiers. There gathered an extraordinary band of pilotsincluding Second World War aces Chuck Yeager and George Welchwho risked their lives flying experimental aircraft to reach Mach 1, the so-called sound barrier, which pilots called the demon.

Shrouding the program in secrecy, the US military reluctantly acknowledged the barrier had been broken only after the story was leaked. The full truth has never been revealeduntil now.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062688743
• Artikelnr.: 53323271

Autorenporträt

Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Dan Hampton flew 151 combat missions during his twenty years (19862006) in the United States Air Force. For his service in the Iraq War, Kosovo conflict, and first Gulf War, Col. Hampton received four Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor, a Purple Heart, eight Air Medals with Valor, five Meritorious Service medals, and numerous other citations. He is a graduate of the USAF Fighter Weapons School, USN Top Gun School (TOGS), and USAF Special Operations School. A frequent guest analyst on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC discussing foreign affairs, military, aviation, and intelligence issues, he has published in Aviation History, the Journal of Electronic Defense, Air Force Magazine, Vietnam magazine, and Airpower magazine, and written several classified tactical works for the USAF Weapons Review. He is the author of the national bestsellers Viper Pilot and Lords of the Sky, as well as a novel, The Mercenary.