These silent video clips, culled from footage at the National Archives and Records Administration, show a generalized sequence of ground and flight operations for the Bell X-1, the first airplane ...

De Beeler was an aeronautical engineer for NACA, the predecessor to NASA. He helped design the X-1, which was the first airplane to break the sound barrier. Slick Goodlin was a test pilot for Bell ...

However, whilst so many of its fellow carnivorous fish had submarines named in their honor—including the USS Wahoo (whose own ...

On this day in aviation history, January 19, 1946, the Bell X-1 high-speed research aircraft, made its first flight. While ...