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71 photos and 1 illustration tagged rocketplane, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• aviation
• experimentalflight
• xplane
• aircraft
• airplane
• bellaircraft
• bell
• reactionmotors
• testpilot
• xlr11
• reactionmotorsxlr11
• aeronautics
• bellx1
• sdasm
• x1
• aviator
• flighttest
• usaf
• militaryaviation
• usairforce
• unitedstatesairforce
• x15
• nasa
• x2

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• SDASM Archives 63 photos & illustrations
• NASA on The Commons 8 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration

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Douglas

from SDASM Archives

• TVL1970 said:

  Douglas D-558-3 Skyflash rocketplane proposal. See: www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/4589803573/

Pilot Neil Armstrong in the X-15 #1 cockpit

from NASA on The Commons

• NASA on The Commons said:

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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