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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 Bell X-1 was the first crewed airplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight and was the first of the X-planes. XS-1 pilots. Pilot Agency Flights
This is a list of aircraft of the Sri Lanka Air Force and the Sri Lanka Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA). ... Bell 206 Jet Ranger; Bell 212; Bell 412; Boulton Paul Balliol; C.
Johnston helped design and later flew the rocket-propelled Bell X-1 at a speed of Mach.72 on May 22, 1947. [5] He stayed on the program as a design advisor on modifications to the trim controls that he discovered were unusable in their manufactured configuration at high subsonic speeds.
X-1A #1: February 14, 1953 Jean Ziegler 48-1384 Bell 1 ? ? Pilot familiarization. Fuel jettison test. Glide flight. X-1A #2: February 14, 1953 Jean Ziegler 48-1384
1 [2] British Army Aeroplane No 1: British Army Aeroplane No 1: 1 Rigid airship: HMA No. 1: AH574 Bell P-39 Airacobra: AH574: HE274 Vickers Wellington: 1946 Rabat Vickers Wellington crash: J7557 Beardmore Inflexible: Beardmore Inflexible: K7381 Hawker Audax: Edmonton air crash: L6103 De Bruyne Snark De Bruyne Snark: LN514 Vickers Wellington ...
An all-moving tail was developed by the British for the Miles M.52, but first saw actual transonic flight on the Bell X-1; Bell Aircraft Corporation had included an elevator trim device that could alter the angle of attack of the entire tailplane. This saved the program from a costly and time-consuming rebuild of the aircraft.
John Griffith leaning out the hatch of the X-1 #2. John H. Griffith was a test pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, one of the pilots of the Bell X-1. Griffith grew up in Homewood, Illinois. He joined the United States Army Air Corps in November 1941, and served in the South Pacific during World War II.