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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.
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 ...
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]
One of the most fascinating images he's captured is that of a dreamy phenomenon that aviators refer to as a 'captain's halo.' Airline pilot snaps amazing aerial photos of Paris from the cockpit ...
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
The Bell X-2 (nicknamed "Starbuster" [1]) was an X-plane research aircraft built to investigate flight characteristics in the Mach 2–3 range. The X-2 was a rocket-powered, swept-wing research aircraft developed jointly in 1945 by Bell Aircraft Corporation, the United States Army Air Forces and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to explore aerodynamic problems of ...