My daughter, lilly is 11 and she is doing a school trip to DC next month. Her presentation was on the Air n Space museum featuring the Bell-X1 - very cool n excited! Anything the kids must know?
April 19, 1946 – First flight (Glide) of the Bell X-1, originally designated XS-1, joint NACA-U. S. Army/USAF supersonic research project, first of the so-called X-planes. And so it begins...#BellX1 @usairforce @USArmy @VogueParis
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Very cool indeed.
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Gangster.
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Chuck, Thanks for riding the experimental airplane-rockets. You were courageous beyond my imagination. I have continued to admire you for many years.
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And after those test glides, if I'm not mistaken, she was sent to Bell in Niagara Falls NY to be fitted for powered flights, only about three miles from where I grew up! I've been past the old buildings on the south side of the airport many times. (Yes, it's still there)
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Today they have tanker and drone wings there, and a training unit. I don't know if it's appropriate for a civilian to salute an officer, but you've got one from me, General. And another for Jack Woolams.
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I Read you referred the X-1 as the "orange beast"
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Hollywood fantasy
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True American Hero. That's what you are, Sir!
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Was the first flight also the first to break the sound barrier?
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Looks like nope. I see October 14, 1947 as the boom day.
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