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From the moment powered flight began, humanity has been in a relentless conversation with the atmosphere pushing faster, higher, harder, and listening carefully to what the air pushed back with. This book tells the complete story of that conversation: from the terrifying buffeting that tore apart aircraft approaching the speed of sound in the 1940s, through the swept wings and rocket engines that finally broke the sound barrier, to the titanium and ceramic materials that allowed aircraft to survive their own heat at Mach 3 and beyond. Each chapter follows a specific barrier aerodynamic, thermal, propulsive, structural explaining the physics in plain language and tracing the human story of the engineers, pilots, and researchers who solved problems that looked, from the outside, unsolvable. The book covers the full sweep of high-speed aviation history, from Chuck Yeager's broom-handle-assisted crossing of Mach 1 in 1947 to the SR-71's still-unbroken speed records, from the Space Shuttle's fiery reentries to the scramjet demonstrators that briefly touched Mach 9. It explains why the sound barrier was never really a wall, why the thermal barrier at Mach 3 demanded a complete reinvention of how aircraft are built, why hypersonic flight above Mach 5 enters a physical regime where the air itself stops behaving like air, and why the next generation of speed barriers commercial supersonic aviation, sustained scramjet propulsion, reusable hypersonic vehicles are harder than anything that came before but are being attacked with tools more powerful than any previous generation of engineers possessed. Written without jargon for the curious general reader, this is the story of what it takes to go faster than seemed possible and of everything speed has cost us, and given us, along the way.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the moment powered flight began, humanity has been in a relentless conversation with the atmosphere pushing faster, higher, harder, and listening carefully to what the air pushed back with. This book tells the complete story of that conversation: from the terrifying buffeting that tore apart aircraft approaching the speed of sound in the 1940s, through the swept wings and rocket engines that finally broke the sound barrier, to the titanium and ceramic materials that allowed aircraft to survive their own heat at Mach 3 and beyond. Each chapter follows a specific barrier aerodynamic, thermal, propulsive, structural explaining the physics in plain language and tracing the human story of the engineers, pilots, and researchers who solved problems that looked, from the outside, unsolvable. The book covers the full sweep of high-speed aviation history, from Chuck Yeager's broom-handle-assisted crossing of Mach 1 in 1947 to the SR-71's still-unbroken speed records, from the Space Shuttle's fiery reentries to the scramjet demonstrators that briefly touched Mach 9. It explains why the sound barrier was never really a wall, why the thermal barrier at Mach 3 demanded a complete reinvention of how aircraft are built, why hypersonic flight above Mach 5 enters a physical regime where the air itself stops behaving like air, and why the next generation of speed barriers commercial supersonic aviation, sustained scramjet propulsion, reusable hypersonic vehicles are harder than anything that came before but are being attacked with tools more powerful than any previous generation of engineers possessed. Written without jargon for the curious general reader, this is the story of what it takes to go faster than seemed possible and of everything speed has cost us, and given us, along the way. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798181985131
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