The X-1-3 would be the final iteration of the X-1 generation of Bell planes. This aircraft would use a turbopump and was geared to go Mach 2.4, or over twice the speed of sound.

Th Bell XS-1, meanwhile, had been discussed as early as December 1944, with specifications laid out for a pilot aircraft that could fly at 800 miles per hour (1,300 km/h) at 35,000 feet (11,000 m ...

Meet the X-1: When it comes to testing airplanes the “X” designation means experimental. The first X aircraft was built in 1945 by Bell in partnership with the U.S. Army ...

A joint project of NACA and the U.S. Army Air Forces, built by Bell Aircraft of Buffalo, New York, the X-1 reached a speed of 700 miles per hour that bright day, Mach 1.06 at an altitude of 43,000 ...

Conceived by Bell Aircraft as part of a U.S. Air Force order to explore and develop VTOL technologies, the X-14 first achieved vertical flight in February 1957.

The AVI-8 Limited-Edition Bell X-1 “Glamorous Glennis,” depending on the selected iteration, is priced between $435 USD to $455 USD and will be available via the watchmaker’s official site ...

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 ...

On Oct. 14, 1947, 75 years ago, Air Force test pilot Charles E. Yeager climbed into a Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first human being to break the sound barrier in level flight.