Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis"
On October 14, 1947, flying the Bell X-1, Captain Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager became the first pilot to fly faster than sound over the Mojave Desert, California. The flight demonstrated that aircraft could be designed to fly faster than sound, and the concept of a "sound barrier" crumbled into a myth.
Bell Aircraft produced three rocket powered XS-1 (for Experimental Sonic). N° 3 exploded on the ground, so the survivors are
Oakes Claudia e.a.: Aircraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1991 |
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