Bell X-1: Breaking the Sound Barrier - Documentary (1997)

[@mountassiniboine]

Sad to see you go, Chuck. God Speed.

[@dbeelee8564]

The narration is a little misleading. At the 5:20 mark, a comment about using an all moving elevator is accurate. It is necessary for stable mach flight. However, at the 19:11 mark, the record breaking flight shows a typical fixed elevator with moving trailing edge. Because of the typical elevator, the flight controls were used as Yeager mentioned, up and down to produce a somewhat controlled level flight. After the record breaking flight, the planes elevators were changed to the all moving elevators now seen on all supersonic aircraft. In fact, that is the way to distinguish between subsonic and supersonic design, not whether the wings are swept or not.

[@freedomfaction100]

This man Chuck Yeager, he was made differently

[@francishuddy9462]

Chuck Yeager, 97, gone ...

[@densealloy]

I would have just loved to see Bob Hoover fly his Shrike Commander in person. Its phenomenal to see on video so in person I can't imagine. Those old pilots had something special.

[@knk4ever83]

RIP legend

[@blacksta-r]

Girlfriend: I'm home alone The boyfriend: Bell X-1 it is

[@nacebedace8243]

time to steal a nasa spaceship just to make love

[@andrewmorgan4650]

Chuck, we have a plane that can break the sound barrier. Chuck, hold my beer. American Hero, Moxy is in short supply these days, Chuck had MOXY! Wooooo!

[@FEAROWNAGE]

What was the song at the end?

[@maxschell8823]

The first contract to Bell Aircraft dated 16 March 1945 , contract number W-33-038-ac-9183 Army Technical Services Command (ATSC) . The XS-1 was to fly to Mach 0.8 ONLY under this initial contract. Goodlin flew the XS-1 under a tight flight profile as dictated by the NACA. Contract negotiations between Bell Aircraft and Army Air Force for the flights above 0.8 Mach failed. The Army took over the program and Yeager became the test pilot. At that time Goodlin left Bell Aircraft and went on the fly for the Israel Defense Force (IDF) in 1948. Unfortunately Goodlin, who made 26 flights in the XS-1, had several derogatory remarks made about him. NONE were true. ALL very unfortunate.

[@rafaelj.benero4880]

The story is fascinating, buy the music is not appropriate!...

[@mojoking7011]

RIP Chuck. Chuck was pilot.

[@chase123456ist]

Grandma music

[@ImaMonaKnight]

RIP💯💞

[@AlexanderPallares]

I told you not to touch it!

[@perrywidhalm114]

Test.

[@scrappybobbarker5224]

I have to mute this and play The Right Music

[@muppetrowlf1473]

Should be the BRITISH Bell X-1 . The aerodynamics are lifted from the Miles M52.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Bollocks mate! The Miles M.52 never existed.

[@WilhelmKarsten]

Never in the history of aviation has there been so much discussion about an aircraft that never existed. The Miles M.52 is pure British science fiction... no such aircraft ever flew or was ever constructed... the M.52 never existed

[@tjm3900]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 While a full sized operational aircraft was not built the work on such an aircraft WAS 90% complete and much of the work including the flying tail was used by Bell. Unmanned models of the craft proved the concept viable.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@tjm3900 That's a completely false statement made by Dennis Bancroft who was indicted by the Crown court after Miles Aircraft was charged with 24 counts of fraud and embezzlement. When the M.52 scandal broke Ministry auditors raided Miles Aircraft and found no trace of either prototype aircraft or the money paid to build them. Only incomplete drawings and a partially constructed wooden mock-up of the cockpit section was found. Bancroft also made false claims that data was given to the Americans but no evidence has ever been found to substantiate his claims. Bell used a nearly exact copy of the Messerschmitt Me-262s fly-by-wire Horizontal Stabilator system which was found by the Von Kámán Mission. Theodore von Kármán who was Jack Ridley's professor at CalTech. Jack Ridley was the engineer at Bell on the X-1 program and installed the Me-262s Electric Fly-by-wire Horizontal Stabilator on the X-1. History has shown that the M.52 could never reach Mach 1, no aircraft powered by an obsolete centrifugal jet engine has ever reached Mach 1 in level flight.

[@DoktorBayerischeMotorenWerke]

THE MILES M.52 WAS A HOAX, NO SUCH AIRCRAFT EVER EXISTED,

[@Drewsky840]

The music made this unwatchable

[@andreadonadello9048]

W USA.They will be our friends

[@Cartoonman154]

The starting point was data from the British from the Mile M.52. Sharing data with the Americas was the biggest mistake because they will never share it back.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Please stop spreading lies and false information about the Bell X1. The Miles M.52 never existed and there is absolutely no evidence to support the myth that any useful information was given to the X1 project by Britian or Miles Aircraft.

[@WilhelmKarsten]

There is absolutely no evidence to support the myth had data was given to Bell or the Americans. This fictional version of history comes from a single highly dubious source, Dennis Bancroft who was indicted on embezzlement charges in the Miles Aircraft fraud scandal that bankrupted the company. Bancroft, Frank Whittle, Eric Brown and others received cash payments from the M.52 program for work that was never performed or completed. The Miles M.52 scandal is a truly shameful and humiliating chapter in British aviation history and destroyed the careers of all 3 men..

[@DoktorBayerischeMotorenWerke]

THE MILES M.52 IS A BRITISH HOAX, NO SUCH AIRCRAFT EVER EXISTED.,