When it comes to the latest and greatest in airplane tech, perhaps no other organization is better at developing these cutting-edge aircraft than the Armstrong Flight Research Center, HQ for NASA ...

The Air Force museum has the flight suit Yeager wore that day in storage, and an XLR11 rocket engine on display just like the one that powered the X-1. The Bell X-1B, a longer, similar version of ...

The X-1, manufactured by Bell Aircraft Corporation was the crowning achievement of post-World War II American aeronautics. It was the first of the X-planes—a series of rocket and jet-powered ...

Air-launched from a Boeing B-29, the X-1 utilized a rocket-propelled engine to reach its blistering speeds. The Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis would go on to inspire modern fighter jet design and ...