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Chasing the Demon
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The New York Times best-selling author of Viper Pilot chronicles another thrilling chapter in American aviation history: the race to break the sound barrier.
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States accelerated the development of technologies that would give it an advantage over the Soviet Union. Airpower, combined with nuclear weapons, offered a formidable check on Soviet aggression. In 1947, the United States Air Force was established. Meanwhile, scientists and engineers were pioneering a revolutionary new type of aircraft which could do what no other machine had ever done: reach mach 1 - a speed faster than the movement of sound - which pilots called "the demon."
Chasing the Demon recreates an era of excitement and danger, adventure and innovation, when the future of the free world was at stake and American ingenuity took the world from the postwar years to the space age. While the pressure to succeed was high, it was unknown whether man or machine could survive such tremendous speeds.
A decorated military pilot with years of experience flying supersonic fighter jets, Dan Hampton reveals in-depth the numerous potential hazards that emerged with the Air Force’s test flights: controls broke down, engines flamed out, wings snapped, and planes and pilots disintegrated as they crashed into the desert floor. He also introduces the men who pushed the envelope taking the cockpits of these jets, including World War II ace Major Dick Bong and 24-year-old Captain Chuck Yeager, who made history flying the Bell X-1 plane faster than the speed of sound on October 14, 1947.
Chasing the Demon recalls this period of the emerging Cold War and the brave adventurers pursing the final frontier in aviation.
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FINALLY A Pilot Tells it Like it is!!
- De aaron en 10-26-12
De: Dan Hampton
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The Hunter Killers
- De: Dan Hampton
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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A gripping chronicle of the band of maverick aviators who signed on for the suicidal, dangerous top-secret "Wild Weasel" missions during the Vietnam War - which used controversial and revolutionary tactics to combat Soviet missile technology - from New York Times best-selling author Dan Hampton.
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False Advertising
- De Stephen Ford en 08-31-15
De: Dan Hampton
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Lords of the Sky
- Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16
- De: Dan Hampton
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 17 h y 25 m
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The New York Times best-selling author of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton offers the first comprehensive popular history of combat aviation - a unique, entertaining, and action-packed look at the aces of the air and their machines, from the Red Baron and his triplane in World War I to today's technologically expert flying warriors in supersonic jets.
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Great history, but ending goes off-topic
- De Lugal en 07-31-14
De: Dan Hampton
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Stealth
- The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
- De: Peter Westwick
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing. Here was the first extensive combat application of Stealth technology. And it was devastating.
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Good Overview of the original development
- De Amazon Customer en 08-01-22
De: Peter Westwick
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Operation Vengeance
- The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II
- De: Dan Hampton
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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In 1943, the United States military began to plan one of the most dramatic secret missions of World War II. Its code name was Operation Vengeance. Naval Intelligence had intercepted the itinerary of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander in chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, whose stealth attack on Pearl Harbor precipitated America’s entry into the war. Harvard-educated, Yamamoto was a close confidant of Emperor Hirohito and a brilliant tactician who epitomized Japanese military might.
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I want 1/2 my money back
- De DPM en 08-11-20
De: Dan Hampton
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Valor
- The Astonishing World War II Saga of One Man's Defiance and Indomitable Spirit
- De: Dan Hampton
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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Lieutenant William Frederick “Bill” Harris was 25 years old when captured by Japanese forces during the Battle of Corregidor in May 1942. This son of a decorated Marine general escaped from hell on earth by swimming eight hours through a shark-infested bay; but his harrowing ordeal had just begun. Shipwrecked on the southern coast of the Philippines, he was sheltered by a Filipino aristocrat, engaged in guerilla fighting, and eventually set off through hostile waters to China.
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Epic story of survival, and sacrifice
- De Michael V McKenney en 02-03-23
De: Dan Hampton
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Viper Pilot
- The Autobiography of One of America's Most Decorated Combat Pilots
- De: Dan Hampton
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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Sure to rank as one of the greatest aviation memoirs ever written, Viper Pilot is an Air Force legend's thrilling eyewitness account of modern air warfare. From 1986 to 2006, Lt. Col. Dan Hampton was a leading member of the Wild Weasels, the elite Air Force fighter squadrons whose mission is recognized as the most dangerous job in modern air combat. Weasels are the first planes sent into a war zone, flying deep behind enemy lines purposely seeking to draw fire from surface-to-air missiles and artillery. They must skillfully evade being shot down - and then return to destroy the threats, thereby making the skies safe for everyone else to follow.
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FINALLY A Pilot Tells it Like it is!!
- De aaron en 10-26-12
De: Dan Hampton
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The Hunter Killers
- De: Dan Hampton
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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A gripping chronicle of the band of maverick aviators who signed on for the suicidal, dangerous top-secret "Wild Weasel" missions during the Vietnam War - which used controversial and revolutionary tactics to combat Soviet missile technology - from New York Times best-selling author Dan Hampton.
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False Advertising
- De Stephen Ford en 08-31-15
De: Dan Hampton
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Lords of the Sky
- Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16
- De: Dan Hampton
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 17 h y 25 m
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The New York Times best-selling author of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton offers the first comprehensive popular history of combat aviation - a unique, entertaining, and action-packed look at the aces of the air and their machines, from the Red Baron and his triplane in World War I to today's technologically expert flying warriors in supersonic jets.
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Great history, but ending goes off-topic
- De Lugal en 07-31-14
De: Dan Hampton
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Stealth
- The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
- De: Peter Westwick
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing. Here was the first extensive combat application of Stealth technology. And it was devastating.
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Good Overview of the original development
- De Amazon Customer en 08-01-22
De: Peter Westwick
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The Secret History of World War II
- Spies, Code Breakers, & Covert Operations
- De: Neil Kagan, Stephen G. Hyslop
- Narrado por: Andrew Reilly
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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From the authors who created Eyewitness to World War II and numerous other best-selling reference books, this is the shocking story behind the covert activity that shaped the outcome of one of the world's greatest conflicts - and the destiny of millions of people. National Geographic's landmark book illuminates World War II as never before. Seven narrative chapters reveal the truth behind the lies and deception that shaped the "secret war".
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War in the Shadows
- De Tim McGreer en 06-09-20
De: Neil Kagan, y otros
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Vanishing Act
- The Enduring Mystery Behind the Legendary Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo
- De: Dan Hampton
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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In the dark days after the devastating Pearl Harbor attacks during the spring of 1942, the United States was determined to show the world that the Axis was not invincible. Their bold plan? Bomb Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, sixteen B-25s, known as the Doolittle Raiders, hit targets across Japan before escaping to China. The eighth plane, however, did not follow the other raiders. Instead, Plane 8's pilots, Captain Edward "Ski" York and Lieutenant Bob Emmens, never attacked Tokyo, but headed across Japan to the Soviet Union, supposedly due to low fuel.
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Bomber Eight's true mission revealed.
- De mickpick en 08-21-24
De: Dan Hampton
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Fighter Pilot
- The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
- De: Robin Olds, Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 17 h y 2 m
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A larger-than-life hero with a towering personality, Robin Olds was a graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army. In World War II, Olds quickly became a top fighter pilot and squadron commander by the age of 22—a double ace with twelve aerial victories. But it was in Vietnam where the man became a legend.
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Top Notch Audiobook
- De R. A. Frank en 10-08-10
De: Robin Olds, y otros
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Yeager
- An Autobiography
- De: Chuck Yeager
- Narrado por: Chris Browning, Pamela Dillman, David Stifel, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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General Chuck Yeager was the greatest test pilot of them all - the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound...the World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang...the hero who defined a certain quality that all hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era aimed to achieve: the right stuff. Now he tells his whole incredible life story with the same “wide-open, full throttle” approach that has marked his astonishing career.
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Just an Amazing Life
- De John en 05-08-20
De: Chuck Yeager
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Skies of Thunder
- The Deadly World War II Mission over the Roof of the World
- De: Caroline Alexander
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 14 h y 5 m
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In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air—meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on “the Hump,” the fearsome mountain barrier that defined the air route.
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Missing In Action
- De Douglas S. en 06-07-24
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Skunk Works
- A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
- De: Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies. Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of Cold War confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds.
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Ben Rich's life story...but not in that order
- De Allstar en 11-05-16
De: Ben R. Rich, y otros
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- Julie Brierley
- 05-27-20
A crossroads of aerospace development and world history
This audio book was an insightful and fascinating account of how world events and aircraft development were, and continue to be, intertwined. In addition to the technical concepts presented, which is done in easily-understood terms, substantial background is given on the historical figures and personalities, some well known and others not so much, including early theorists, engineers, and pilots, which provided the contextual backdrop to the larger story.
The narrator also did a great job with keeping the listener’s interest, and making this an enjoyable experience.
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- scott streit
- 02-28-19
History lesson
The lead up to the x1 story is quite long and detailed. Not bad just not exactly what I was expecting.
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- Joe
- 11-11-21
Good
Interesting historical context, but went on too long at times. I would have liked to hear more about later generations of test pilots from different eras contrasted against the originals, and what this suggests about changing American culture.
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- bobh344
- 07-27-18
History lesson..
This is good aviation history lesson but took a long time to get to breaking the sound barrier.
Need to hang in there to get to the point if the book.
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- Jay Jones
- 08-14-18
Interesting additional facts & theories
well written and narrated. Definitely additional theories tho be considered than what official history has recorded.
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- John A Stevenson
- 11-20-18
Not at all what it purports to be
If you’re looking for a book in the vein of “The Right Stuff,” do yourself a favor and buy The Right Stuff. This is my first Dan Hampton, so I can’t compare it to other works, but I expected a story of the background of the pilots and the development at Edwards AFB, and even after reading negative reviews gave it the benefit of the doubt and went in excited. In truth, the bulk of the book is about the World Wars with a vague theme of the desire to fly faster, the last eighth focusing on the X-1 and the jets that pushed it up. If the book were titled tidbits of military aviation history and why I believe Yeager wasn’t first even without valid documentation, it would have been less of a letdown.
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- rob allen
- 07-31-18
Storys of Real men.
Another great history lesson from Dan Hampton for the modern reader and a great performance by John Pruden.
I really love feeling like i am getting to know these men. Men who served our country and deserve to have their stories told.
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- MIKE57
- 09-17-19
A good overview of WW2 air war.
A good overview of WW2 air war, with a BRIEF but detailed story of SuperSonic flight.
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- Aurora
- 03-23-24
Excellent
Excellent detailed content.
Excellent narration with enthusiastic pace without being overdone. (Probably the best narrated book I’ve listened to.)
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- Brian Garrett
- 08-23-19
Much more history before the demon
I was a little surprised by how much of this book spent in the WWII days talking about the pilots. Certainly they have to set the stage of aviation in general, but I was say at least half the book was focused on the pilots pre-attempting to break the sound barrier. I was also surprised about the possible other person to break the sound barrier before Chuck Yeager. A decent book overall.
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