Both planes was virtually identical, the different between the #1 and #2 was,
that #1 used a 8% thickness/chord ratio wing and the #2 a 10%. The 10% wing was
originally on the #1, but this wing was removed and installed on the #2 and the
#1 got the newest 8% designed wing. Due to the 10% wing, the #2 was a little
bit slower than the #1. See ya Pork Pie
"Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com> schrieb:
> 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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