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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
Pereira X-28A Sea Skimmer – Single-seat flying boat for US Navy; Grumman X-29 forward swept wing and stability research aircraft. Grumman X-29 – Forward-swept wing test aircraft; Rockwell X-30 – Single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft; Rockwell-MBB X-31 – Extreme angle of attack test aircraft; Boeing X-32 – Joint Strike Fighter Program ...
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Yeager stands in front of the Bell X-1 named Glamorous Glennis. He named all of his assigned aircraft in some variation after his wife. Yeager is in the Bell X-1 cockpit. Such was the difficulty, that the answers to many of the inherent challenges were like "Yeager better have paid-up insurance". [35]
The P-59 Airacomet, the first American jet fighter, the P-63 Kingcobra, the successor to the P-39, and the Bell X-1 were also Bell products. [3] A Bell 47 is displayed at the MoMA Previous Bell logo. In 1941, Bell hired Arthur M. Young, a talented inventor, to provide expertise for helicopter research and development.