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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 ...
X-1A #1: February 14, 1953 Jean Ziegler 48-1384 Bell 1 ? ? Pilot familiarization. Fuel jettison test. Glide flight. ... X-1A suffered small in flight explosion. Pilot ...
X-1D #1: July 24, 1951 Jean Ziegler 48-1386 Bell 1 ? ? Pilot familiarization. Glide flight. Nose gear broken on landing. X-1D #2: August 22, 1951 Frank Everest 48-1386 USAF 1 ? ? Launch aborted. Small explosion during propellant jettison process. Pilot evacuated to B-50. X-1D jettisoned and destroyed.
He flew in three versions of the Bell X-1: the X-1#2 (two flights, first on August 27, 1951), X-1A (one flight), X-1E (21 flights). When Walker attempted a second flight in the X-1A on August 8, 1955, the rocket aircraft was damaged in an explosion just before being launched from the JTB-29A mothership. Walker was unhurt, though, and he climbed ...
Reaction Motors, Inc. (RMI) was an early American maker of liquid-fueled rocket engines, located in New Jersey.RMI engines with 6,000 lbf (27 kN) thrust powered the Bell X-1 rocket aircraft that first broke the sound barrier in 1947, and later aircraft such the X-1A, X-1E, and the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and FBI are investigating the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in front of the Trump hotel in Vegas, that left 1 dead.
Jean 'Skip' Ziegler in front of the Bell X-5 test article at Edwards Air Force Base. Ziegler after the first glide flight of the X-2. Jean "Skip" Ziegler (January 1, 1920 – May 12, 1953) was a United States test pilot. He was killed in an explosion of the Bell X-2 during a test flight in 1953.
An explosion ripped through a hotel in Pennsylvania’s Amish country, leaving one person dead, police said. The blast occurred around 2:30 a.m. Dec. 18 at the Bird-in-Hand Family Inn in Lancaster ...