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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 ... CA. Glide flight, familiarization. XS-1 #12: October 14, 1946 ...
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.
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.
The XB-1 supersonic flight took off near Edwards Air Force Base in Mojave, California, and flew through the Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor and the Black Mountain Supersonic Corridor for 35 minutes.
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.
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
Bell 1 48-1386 Frank Everest USAF: 1 48-1386 X-1D flights. Vehicle Flight # Date Pilot Aircraft Agency Velocity-Mach- Altitude - m - Comments X-1D #1: July 24, 1951