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**Books:**
- Becker, John.  High Speed Frontier: Case Histories of FourNACA Program, 1920-1950  (NASA SP-445). Washington: GovernmentPrinting Office, 1980.  
- Bilstein, Roger E.  Orders of Magnitude: A History of theNACA and NASA, 1915-1990.  (NASA SP-4406). Washington: GovernmentPrinting Office, 1989.  
- Gray, George.  Frontiers of Flight . New York: AlfredA. Knopf, 1948.  
- Hallion, Richard.  *On the Frontier: Flight Research at Dryden,1946-1981*.  (NASA SP-4303). Washington: Government PrintingOffice, 1984.  
- Hallion, Richard.  Supersonic Flight: The Story of the BellX-1 and Douglas D-558 . New York and London: Macmillan Companyand Collier-Macmillan Company, Ltd. in association with the SmithsonianInstitution, 1972.  
- Hallion, Richard.  Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen of Flight .Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988.   
- Hansen, James.  Engineer in Charge: A History of the LangleyAeronautical Laboratory,  1917-1958 (NASA SP-4305). Washington:Government Printing Office, 1987.  
- Jenkins, Dennis R.  Hypersonics Before theShuttle: A Concise History of the X-15 Research Airplane.   Monograph in Aerospace History, No. 18, 2000 (NASA SP-2000-4518).  
- Logsdon, John M. Editor. With Lear, Linda J., Warren Findley,Jannelle, Williamson, Ray A., and Day, Dwayne A.  Exploringthe Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. CivilSpace Program, Volume I, Organizing for Exploration . (NASASP-4407). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1995.  
- Miller, Jay.  The X-Planes, X-1 to X-29 . Marine on St.Croix, MN: Specialty Press, 1983.   
- Pearcy, Arthur.  Flying the Frontiers: NACA and NASA ExperimentalAircraft.  Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1993.
- Roland, Alex.  Model Research: The National Advisory Committeefor Aeronautics , 1915-1958 (NASA SP-4103). Washington: GovernmentPrinting Office, 1985.  
- Rotundo, Louis.  Into the Unknown: The X-1 Story . Washingtonand London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.  
- Saltzman, Edwin and Ayers, Theodore.  Selected Examplesof NACA/NASA Supersonic Flight Research  (NASA SP-513). Washington:Government Printing Office, 1995.  
- Wallace, Lane.  Flights of Discovery: An Illustrated Historyof the Dryden Flight Research Center   (NASA SP-4309). Washington:Government Printing Office, 1996.  
- Yeager, Chuck and Janos, Leo.   Yeager:  An Autobiography.   New York:  Bantam, 1985.  

**Articles**
- Champine, Bob.  "Testing the First Supersonic Aircraft:  Memoirs of NACA Pilot Bob Champine."  Wings.  (February 1991).  Click here to  view excerpted version. 
- Garvey, William. "The Outer Limits (Testing ExperimentalPlanes at Edwards Air Force Base, California)."  PopularMechanics . 173 (September 1996): 48-61.   
- Hoffer, William. "History's Best Test Pilots."  PopularMechanics . 162 (April 1985): 78-9.  
- Jones, Robert. "Chuck Yeager."  People Weekly .20 (November 21, 1983): 70+.  
- Mann, Paul "Breaking the Sound Barrier."  AviationWeek and Space Technology . 135 #6 (August 12, 1991): 140-141+.  
- Yeager, Chuck. "Breaking the Sound Barrier."  PopularMechanics . 194 (November 1987): 90-2+.        
Updated October 18, 2007
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