Title: Higher and faster
Description: "In 1961, pilot Robert W. White flew a hypersonic rocket-powered airplane six times faster than the speed of sound and higher than 300,000 feet above the Earth. This is his story, tracing his childhood, his years as a pilot and POW during World War II, and his rise as an experimental test pilot in the Air Force"--
Subjects: United States. Air Force, United States, Test pilots, Officers, Biography, Air pilots, biography, Florida, biography
Places: United States
People: Robert M. White (1924-2010)