X-Nico

unusual facts about Bell X-22


X22

Bell X-22, an American experimental tiltfan aircraft of the 1960s.


Assisted take-off

This allows the daughter craft to be designed with fewer weight and aerodynamic restrictions allowing for exotic configurations to be used or tested, for example the recent SpaceShipOne, and previously the Bell X-1 and other X-planes.

David Clark Company

It developed partial pressure suits for NASA's Bell X-1 rocket-powered research aircraft in the 1940s, and full pressure suits for the D558-2 and North American X-15 research aircraft in the 1950s.

David Geraghty

The group temporarily disbanded but after a short break, the remaining members reformed as Bell X1, named after the Bell X-1 (note the hyphen), the first plane to break the sound barrier.

Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket

For high speed flight, a four-chamber Reaction Motors LR8-RM-6 engine (the Navy designation for the Air Force's XLR-11 used in the Bell X-1), was fitted.

Hans Guido Mutke

Mutke also made the controversial claim that he broke the sound barrier in 1945 in an Me 262, but mainstream opinion continues to regard Chuck Yeager as the first person to achieve this milestone in 1947 in a Bell X-1 .

Happy Bottom Riding Club

A tradition was started when Chuck Yeager, who became friends with Pancho during Mexican hunting and fishing expeditions, broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 and Pancho gave him a free steak dinner.

James Hart Wyld

Later versions of Wyld's engine were contained in the Bell X-1 rocket plane, which was the first manned vehicle to break the sound barrier, and in the MX-774 rocket.

Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center

The only replicated items in the Cosmosphere are the model of Glamorous Glennis, the Bell X-1 flown by Chuck Yeager, and the life-sized space shuttle replica that greets visitors.

Marshall P. Tulin

After graduating from MIT in 1946, he first worked on high-speed wind tunnel testing of the X-1 aircraft before moving to work for the Navy at the David Taylor Model Basin.

Melvyn Smith

It recites and publishes photographs of early aircraft, such as the Bell X-1, the X-15, and lifting body studies before going into a discussion of the Shuttle.

National Space Society

The 2006 recipient was retired Air Force Brigadier General Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager for his pioneering efforts in aeronautics with the Bell X-1 rocket-powered flights of the late 1940s and early 1950s.

The Sound Barrier

Contrary to what is depicted in the film, the first aircraft to break the sound barrier was the Bell X-1 flown by Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force in 1947.

X14

Bell X-14, an experimental VTOL aircraft flown in the United States in the 1950s

XS1

The original designation, XS-1, of the Bell X-1, a supersonic prototype airplane designed and built by the United States in 1945


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