
Bell X-1 | |
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Land | USA |
Type | Experimental aircraft |
Første flytur | 19 January 1946 |
Bygget | 04 |
Photo gallery of a Bell X-1B, The Bell X-1, designated originally as XS-1, was a joint National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics-U.S. Army Air Forces-U.S. Air Force supersonic research project built by the Bell Aircraft Company. Conceived during 1944 and designed and built during 1945, it achieved a speed of nearly 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 km/h; 870 kn) during 1948. A derivative of this same design, the Bell X-1A, having greater fuel capacity and hence longer rocket burning time, exceeded 1,600 miles per hour (2,600 km/h; 1,400 kn) during 1954. The X-1 was the first manned airplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight and was the first of the so-called X-planes, a series of American experimental rocket planes designated for testing of new technologies and often kept secret.
Source: Bell X-1 on Wikipedia
Photographer | Howard Mason |
Localisation | Unknow |
Photos | 21 |

Bell X-1B Walk Around | |
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Photographers | John Heck, Vladimir Yakubov |
Localisation | The National Museum of the USAF |
Photos | 30 |
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