Bell X1 Rocket Powered Aircraft #1 Canvas Print

The Bell X1 Rocket Powered Aircraft displayed at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, as seen in 1984.

The Bell X-1 (Bell Model 44) is a rocket engine–powered aircraft, designated originally as the XS-1, and was a joint National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics–U.S. Army Air Forces–U.S. Air Force supersonic research project built by Bell Aircraft. Conceived during 1944 and designed and built in 1945, it achieved a speed of nearly 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 km/h; 870 kn) in 1948. A derivative of this same design, the Bell X-1A, having greater fuel capacity and hence longer rocket burning time, exceeded 1,600 miles per hour (2,600 km/h; 1,400 kn) in 1954. The X-1 aircraft #46-062, nicknamed Glamorous Glennis and piloted by Chuck Yeager, was the first manned airplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight and was the first of the X-planes, a series of American experimental rocket planes (and non-rocket planes) designed for testing new technologies.

This is the official website of the artist Gordon James who uses his 50+ years of photographic skills and experience to highlight the beauty of photography and as an art form to create prints, home decor, apparel and more to be made from his wide range of images. “A Photographic Journey” – PLANES and TRAINS Exhibition – Gordon James Ever since reaching 8 years of age and being allowed to use the families 127 Box Brownie camera at an air show I have been on that photographic journey My first part time job at a chemist restocking bottle and baby foods soon led to running the new photographic counter and selling cameras. As the end of my school life neared my careers teacher first made me aware that there were people called...