Dick;
Perhaps that was the Bell X-1. Chuck Yeager broke "the sound barrier" in
this little rocket powered research plane. Check out the movie "The Right
Stuff."
>From http://space.magnificent.com/
"On Oct. 11, 1946, Chalmers "Slick" Goodlin, chief pilot for the Bell
Aircraft Corp., flew an unpowered, seven-minute glide test of the second
X-1, serial number 46-063, over Muroc, CA -- now the site of Edwards Air
Force Base and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. Glide tests were
important for studying landing characteristics of the X-1s, as all of those
aircraft landed as gliders after their fuel was exhausted.
The second X-1 was the sister ship to vehicle No. 1, serial number 46-062,
"Glamorous Glennis," which is remembered as the first aircraft to break the
sound "barrier" on Oct. 14, 1947. "
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick J [mailto:lsr_man@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 8:04 AM
To: W S Potter; Bryan Savage
Cc: wmtsmith@landracing.com; Jonathan Amo; LSR List
Subject: Re: Tear drop
I absolutely love that car. Being a nostalgia freak, if I ever built a
streamliner, it would have to look like that. I'd sacrefice absolute top
speed just to enjoy the beauty of the car. Every time I look at that car, I
remember a film of a test airplane being dropped from the belly of a B-29 in
the mid-fifties. It was a pollywog shaped plane with either no wings or
very tiny wings.
Dick J
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