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Bell X-1 — A Giant-Scale Sound-Barrier Buster!
On October 14, 1947, with a speed of Mach 1.07, Charles Elwood “Chuck” Yeager, a test pilot at Muroc Army Air Field (now Edwards Air Force Base), piloted the Bell X-1 at an altitude of 45,000 feet and broke the sound barrier. Being the fastest man alive, he set the stage for decades of hyper speed testing. It's little wonder that Yeager and the Bell X-1 inspired so many modelers to build scale versions of...
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