Overview
Born in Belgium, Karel Jan Bossart moved to America and worked with brilliant and colorful aircraft designers in the 1930s. After the Second World War, he developed the first American intercontinental ballistic missile, employing radical innovations in design. Initially skeptical, the US Air Force embraced his plan after they realized that the Soviet Union was close to completing a similar weapon system.
- | Author: Don Mitchell
- | Publisher: Mental Landscape, Llc
- | Publication Date: Nov 07, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 208 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0998330507
- | ISBN-13: 9780998330501
