Bell X-2
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The Bell X-2 was an X-plane research aircraft built to investigate flight characteristics in the Mach 2–3 range. The X-2 was a rocket-powered, swept-wing research aircraft developed jointly in 1945 by
Bell X-2 #2 with a collapsed nose landing gear, after landing on the first glide flight, on 27 June 1952 at Edwards Air Force Base.
X-2 just after being dropped.
X-2, crew, B-50 mothership, and support equipment.
The X-2's twin set of shock diamonds in the exhaust plume, characteristic of supersonic conditions from a two-chamber rocket engine.
Bell X-1
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The Bell X-1 is a rocket engine–powered aircraft, designated originally as the XS-1, and was a joint National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics–U.S. Army Air Forces–U.S. Air Force supersonic research
Bell X-2
…for Aeronautics (NACA) to explore aerodynamic problems of supersonic flight and to expand the speed and altitude regimes obtained with the earlier X-1 series of research aircraft. The Bell X-2 was developed to provide a vehicle for researching flight characteristics at speeds and altitudes in excess…
X-1 #46-062, nicknamed Glamorous Glennis
XLR-11 rocket engine
Chuck Yeager in front of the XS-1-1 that he nicknamed the Glamorous Glennis.
X-1A in flight