Nº 30 · Chapter 04 · Records, Research & Giants
The Right Stuff
Bell X-1 · 1983
You colored this airplane in the book – here you can find it as a model kit, model or movie. In the book on page 63.
Its shape copies a rifle bullet – bullets were known to fly faster than sound. The X-1 did not take off on its own: a B-29 bomber carried it aloft and dropped it.
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