Bell Aircraft Corporation's X-1 Glamorous Glennis was the first aircraft capable of breaking the sound barrier, and served as an important aeronautic step for American engineers hoping to ...

The Bell X-1 broke the sound barrier, proving that supersonic flight was possible. The X-1 was unique in design, made from lightweight materials and propelled by a rocket engine. The X-1's legacy ...

The Bell X-1 became the first aircraft to break the speed of sound during level flight in 1947 with the legendary Charles “Chuck” Yeager at the controls. A few years later the X-2 would push ...

XB-1 demonstrator did not quite break the sound barrier during its seventh test flight but reached speed and altitude ...

The Bell X-1 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 ...

He helped design the X-1, which was the first airplane to break the sound barrier. Slick Goodlin was a test pilot for Bell Laboratories and made numerous flights in the X-1 before it was ...

This fallback meant the X-1 could carry only half the fuel originally anticipated, but at least the project could move ahead. With an engine in place, Larry Bell of Bell Aircraft Corp. and chief ...

After the war, Yeager became a test pilot at Muroc Army Air Field (now Edwards Air Force Base), becoming the first pilot to break the sound barrier in the rocket-powered Bell X-1 aircraft on ...

In a feat that can only be described as legendary, and after many months and a catastrophic setback, Polaris Spaceplanes has ...

President John F. Kennedy's national commitment to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to the Earth before the end ...

Silent Arrow today announced that one of the company’s original GD-2000 flight test aircraft, tail number N23SA, has been donated and accepted by the Smithsonian’s National Air and ...

Shares of the Arlington, Virginia-based company were up 2.1% before the opening bell. The aerospace and ... airlines had to extend the service life of aircraft amid the limited availability ...