Selasa, 07 Maret 2017

Book Review: X-15, by John Anderson

X-15: The World’s Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age by John Anderson and Richard Passman, Zenith Press, Minneapolis, Minn., 2014, $30 Like the X-15 itself, this book is spectacular. John Anderson and Richard Passman, who have aeronautical engineering backgrounds and hands-on experience developing high-speed platforms, treat readers to an …

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