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The First Rocket Powered Airplanes
by Michael Russell
In 1947, the first recorded flight in excess of the sound barrier was recorded. This was the famous flight of Air force Captain Chuck Yeager in the Bell X-1 rocket powered aircraft. There are disputes that other pilots had previously broken the sound barrier but their claims were not substantiated. This flight was recorded at Mach 1.06 as the peak airspeed.
During World War II, the German Air Force was designing a rocket powered aircraft but the end of the war disrupted these plans. The British turned over some of their plans for a rocket engine to the Americans on a reciprocal agreement but they were later disappointed when the Americans did not turn over any of their technical information pursuant to that agreement. The design of the ...
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The First Rocket Powered Airplanes
