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42 photos and 5 illustrations tagged bellx1, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.

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• x1
• aviation
• chuckyeager
• xplane
• experimentalflight
• bellaircraft
• rocketplane
• bell
• testpilot
• yeager
• glamorousglennis
• xlr11
• reactionmotorsxlr11
• reactionmotors
• aviator
• soundbarrier
• aircraft
• aerospace
• aeronautics
• airplane
• edwardsairforcebase
• bellxs1
• xlr11rm5
• flighttest

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• SDASM Archives 39 photos & illustrations
• NASA on The Commons 7 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration

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Restoration 025

from SDASM Archives

• Greg Bishop said:

  www.historynet.com/bell-x-1-dropping-the-orange-beast.htm

AL247-015

from SDASM Archives

• TVL1970 said:

  Test pilot Arthur W. "Kit" Murray besides the Bell X-1A (48-1384). See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_W._Murray

AL247-004

from SDASM Archives

• airmanisr2 said:

  The Bell X-1, designated originally as XS-1, was a joint National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics-U.S. Army Air Forces-U.S. Air Force supersonic research project built by the Bell Aircraft Company. Conceived during 1944 and designed and built during 1945, it achieved a speed of nearly 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 km/h; 870 kn) during 1948. A derivative of this same design, the Bell X-1A, having greater fuel capacity and hence longer rocket burning time, exceeded 1,600 miles per hour (2,600 km/h; 1,400 kn) during 1954. The X-1 was the first manned airplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight and was the first of the so-called X-planes, a series of American experimental rocket planes designated for testing of new technologies and often kept secret