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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.
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.
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Bell 65 ATV ; Bell/Agusta BA609 (tiltrotor), presently known as AgustaWestland AW609; Bell Boeing Quad TiltRotor (proposal) Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey ; Bell Eagle Eye (tiltrotor UAV) Bell V-280 Valor ; Bell X-14 (vectored thrust) Bell X-22 ; Bell XV-3 (first tiltrotor) Bell XV-15 (tiltrotor) Bensen B-10 (ducted fan)
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
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.