Peter E. Davies
Broschiertes Buch

Douglas D-558

D-558-1 Skystreak and D-558-2 Skyrocket

Illustrator: Tooby, Adam
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This title is a detailed, illustrated guide to the Douglas D-558, the ground-breaking US Navy research aircraft which became the first aircraft to break Mach 2, and paved the way for America's Cold War "Century Series" fighters. The six Douglas D-558 research aircraft, built as two variants, were produced for a US Navy and NACA collaborative project to investigate flight in the high subsonic and supersonic regimes and to develop means of coping with the dangerous phenomena of compressibility and pitch-up which had caused many accidents to early jets. Wind tunnels could not provide the necessar...