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| Keywords: X-1A on lakebed DVIDS681558.jpg en The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1A 48-1384 is photographed in July 1955 sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base California This view of the left side of the aircraft shows the change to the X-1A canopy from the X-1s see photo E49-0039 under XS-1 The nose boom carries an angle-of-attack and angle-of-sideslip vane along with a pitot tube for measuring static and impact pressures The fuselage length is 35 feet 8 inches with a wing span of 28 feet The X-1A was created to explore stability and control characteristics at speeds in excess of Mach 2 and altitudes greater than 90 000 feet Bell test pilot Jean Skip Ziegler made six test flights in the X-1A 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 Joseph Walker made one successful flight on 20 July 1955 During a second flight attempt on 8 August 1955 an explosion damaged the X-1A shortly before launch Walker unhurt climbed up into the JTB-29A mothership and the X-1A was jettisoned over the Edwards AFB bombing range NASA Identifier NIX-E55-01799 2009-09-23 Glenn Research Center https //www dvidshub net/image/681558 681558 2012-10-10 10 20 WASHINGTON DC US PD-USGov Aircraft at Rogers Dry Lake Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ Bell X-1 | ||||
