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| Keywords: X-1B Aircraft Cockpit and Instrument Panel DVIDS705868.jpg en The instrument panel of the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1B was quite conventional in appearance and fairly typical of 1950s vintage research aircraft Primary flight instrumentation was centrally mounted with propulsion system and test equipment switches and instruments scattered throughout available space Foot pedals and a center stick with no side controls were all part of the package in the cockpit NACA High-Speed Flight Station technicians maintained the instrumentation in the aircraft The Bell X-1B was a second-generation X-1 used by the U S Air Force for pilot familiarization before being turned over to NACA in December 1954 The X-1B had a modified fuselage with greater capacity for fuel tanks an improved cockpit and a turbopump fuel system as compared with the X-1 The NACA used the X-1B primarily for aerodynamic heating and reaction-control research from 1956 to 1958 The aircraft was fitted with special instrumentation for exploratory aerodynamic heating tests It had over 300 thermocouples installed on it The X-1B was the first aircraft to fly with a reaction-control system; a prototype of the reaction-control system used on the X-15 and other piloted test aircraft The X-1B was given to the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton Ohio on January 27 1959 for preservation and display This aircraft completed a total of 27 glide and powered flights by eight U S Air Force and two NACA test pilots Second-generation X-1 aircraft were 35 8 feet long and had a wingspan of approximately 28 feet NASA Identifier NIX-E-02256 2009-09-23 Glenn Research Center https //www dvidshub net/image/705868 705868 2012-10-10 15 50 WASHINGTON DC US PD-USGov Aircraft at Rogers Dry Lake Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ Bell X-1 | ||||
