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The Bell X-1 (Bell Model 44) is a rocket engine–powered aircraft, designated originally as the XS-1, and was a joint National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics–U.S. Army Air Forces–U.S. Air Force supersonic research project built by Bell Aircraft. Conceived during 1944 and designed and built in 1945, it achieved a speed of nearly 1,000 ...
The first, the Bell X-1, became well known in 1947 after it became the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. [7] Later X-planes supported important research in a multitude of aerodynamic and technical fields, but only the North American X-15 rocket plane of the early 1960s achieved comparable fame to that of the X-1.
The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production of many important civilian and military helicopters.
Aircraft Joseph Cannon Bell Aircraft 1 46-064 Chalmers "Slick" Goodlin: Bell Aircraft 26 46-062 (9), 46-063 (17) Alvin "Tex" Johnston: Bell Aircraft 1 46-063 Jack Woolams: Bell Aircraft 10 46-062 Robert Champine NACA 13 46-063 Scott Crossfield: NACA 10 46-063 John H. Griffith: NACA 9 46-063 Herb Hoover: NACA 14 46-063 Howard Lilly NACA 6 46-063
Bell Helicopters already had extensive experience with VTOL aircraft and was able to utilize an already developed test mockup. In 1964 the prototype, internally referred to by Bell as Model D2127, was ordered by the Navy and received the X-22 designation. It was unveiled at an event in Niagara Falls in May 1965. [1] [2]
X-1A #2: February 14, 1953 Jean Ziegler 48-1384 Bell 2 ? ? Planned powered flight. Propellant system problems. Glide flight. X-1A #3: February 21, 1953 Jean Ziegler 48-1384 Bell 3 ? ? First X1-A powered flight. False fire alarm. X-1A #4: March 26, 1953 Jean Ziegler 48-1384 Bell 4 ? ? Aircraft fired all four cylinders. X-1A #5: April 10, 1953 ...
Bell Aircraft built the P-39 Airacobra and P-63 Kingcobra fighter aircraft during World War II. Bell's P-59 Airacomet fighter was America's first jet-powered aircraft. Postwar, the company produced the Bell X-1, the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight.
Jack Valentine Woolams (1917–1946) was the senior experimental test pilot and later chief test pilot at Bell Aircraft during the introduction of the P-39, P-63, P-59, and X-1 aircraft. He set a world record for altitude and was the first person to fly a fighter jet non-stop across the United States.