And the plane that would ultimately achieve that goal would be the experimental Bell X-1 jet. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, later becoming NASA), the newly formed U.S. Air ...

On this day in aviation history, January 19, 1946, the Bell X-1 high-speed research aircraft, made its first flight. While ...

The Bell X-1 These silent video clips, culled from footage at the National Archives and Records Administration, show a generalized sequence of ground and flight operations for the Bell X-1, the ...

The plane was built on the innovations of the first-ever supersonic flight on the Bell X-1 in 1947. Supersonic flight means that the aircraft flies faster than the speed of sound, or more than 768 ...

Tuesday's flight happened in the same airspace where in 1947 Charles "Chuck" Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, piloting an orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane.