BELL XS-1 FLIGHT # 27 -APR 10, 1947 MUROC AAF. PILOT CHALMERS "SLICK" GOODLIN

APRIL 10, 1947 MUDOC AAF, CA BELL XS-1 FLIGHT # 27 PILOT CHUCK YEAGER XS-1 #27 April 10, 1947 Chalmers Goodlin 46-062 Bell 11 #1 ? ? Glide flight, stall check The Bell X-1 (Bell Model 44) 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 project built by Bell Aircraft. Conceived during 1944 and designed and built in 1945, it achieved a speed of nearly 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 km/h; 870 kn) in 1948. A derivative of this same design, the Bell X-1A, having greater fuel capacity and hence longer rocket burning time, exceeded 1,600 miles per hour (2,600 km/h; 1,400 kn) in 1954.