Naysayers proposed that to cross the sound barrier would result in the spontaneous combustion of the offending aircraft ... would be the experimental Bell X-1 jet. The National Advisory Committee ...

On this day in aviation history, February 19, 1957, the Bell X-14 made its first flight. This aircraft, capable of vertical ...

The XB-1 was accompanied by a Dassault Mirage F1, serving as primary chase aircraft, as well as a Northrop T-38 for photographic purposes. It conducted the supersonic flight in the ‘Bell X-1 ...

piloting the experimental Bell X-1 aircraft at a speed of Mach 1.05 and an altitude of 45,000 feet. The XB-1 breakthrough is the first instance of a civil aircraft breaking the speed of sound over ...

Bell, who had been exploring such designs throughout the 50s, had a promising lead with ducted fans. They had designed an aircraft called ... but was quickly dubbed the X-22 program.

The test flight for the Boom Supersonic XB-1, a prototype aircraft that many tout as the ... jet” will break the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor and the Black Mountain ...

While all commercial airliners operate at subsonic speeds (save for the now-retired Concorde), military aircraft routinely ... Everyone recalls the Bell X-1 that Chuck Yeager used to break the ...

The location was symbolic, as it was the same California airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947 in the Bell X-1, a rocket engine–powered aircraft that was ...

The XB-1 supersonic aircraft demonstrator of Boom Supersonic ... The supersonic corridor mentioned here is the Bell X-1 Supersonic Corridor, the same portion of airspace which was used by ...

In 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first human to break the sound barrier when he pushed the Bell X-1 past Mach 1 during ... where it plans to build 66 Overture aircraft per year.

Tuesday morning at Mojave Air & Space Port in California, almost 80 years after U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager first eclipsed the sound barrier in a Bell X-1, an independently built jet reached ...

Ever since the ahead-of-its-time Concorde jet was retired in 2003, aviation enthusiasts have eagerly awaited the return of a passenger aircraft ... using the Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis" rocket ...