The historic X-1 rocket plane not only gave the world supersonic flight, but also solved many engineering problems, allowing modern aircraft to be designed.

For over 70 years, the X-planes have represented the cutting edge of American aerospace innovation, experimental aircraft ...

Supersonic tunnel trials suggest the X-59’s shape can scatter shock waves, paving the way for hush-hush high-speed flight.

The X-1 was just the beginning of secret, experimental U.S. aircraft design. The Bell X-2 “Starbuster ” soon followed – an airframe designed to research flight characteristics in the Mach 2 ...

Bell X-1: The First Plane to Hit Mach 1 (And Changed The Game) Today, the X-1 might seem like an old and antiquated plane when stacked up against the latest and greatest combat aircraft and ...

The Bell X-1, a miracle of form and function. Photo-illustration by Cade Martin It was arguably the most important flight since Kitty Hawk, and the plane was a perfection of form and function ...

The Bell X-1 was the first X-plane to achieve supersonic flight (Credit: H Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images) The X-1 looked like an aircraft designed to smash the sound barrier.

AVI-8 Reveals Limited-Edition Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis": Available in four different iterations, each limited to a production of 150 examples.

A Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1 supersonic test plane, circa 1950. An X-1 was the first plane to break the sound barrier in Chuck Yeager’s flight on October 14, 1947.

Meet the X-66A, NASA's Sustainable Flight Demonstrator full-scale single-aisle research plane, featuring transonic truss-braced wings and designed to explore net-zero aviation emissions and more ...

The Bell X-1 was the first X-plane to achieve supersonic flight (Credit: H Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images) The X-1 looked like an aircraft designed to smash the sound barrier.