MAKE A MEME View Large Image X-1A on lakebed DVIDS689329.jpg en The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1A 48-1384 is photographed in 1955 sitting on the Rogers Dry Lakebed at Edwards California This view of the right side of the aircraft shows a middle section that contrasts ...
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Keywords: X-1A on lakebed DVIDS689329.jpg en The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1A 48-1384 is photographed in 1955 sitting on the Rogers Dry Lakebed at Edwards California This view of the right side of the aircraft shows a middle section that contrasts quite distinctively with the over-all white paint scheme of the X-1A during its NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station tenure The extreme cold of the liquid oxygen used as a propellant along with alcohol and its deleterious affect on paint dictated that the fuselage area next to the tank be left unpainted The X-1A arrived at Edwards Air Force Base California on January 7 1953 Bell test pilot Jean Skip Ziegler made six test flights between 14 February and 25 April 1953 Air Force test pilots Maj Charles Chuck Yeager and Maj Arthur Kit Murray made 18 flights between 21 November 1953 and 26 August 1954 NACA test pilot Joe Walker made one successful flight on 20 July 1955 During a second flight attempt on 8 August 1955 an explosion damaged the aircraft shortly before launch Walker climbed back up into the JTB-29A mothership and the X-1A was jettisoned over the Edwards AFB bombing range NASA Identifier NIX-E-1764 2009-09-23 Glenn Research Center https //www dvidshub net/image/689329 689329 2012-10-10 12 08 WASHINGTON DC US PD-USGov Aircraft at Rogers Dry Lake Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ Bell X-1
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