Breaking The Limits. The Right Stuff | Chuck Yeager | Biography And Interviews
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2023
- On October 14, 1947, the Bell X-1 became the first airplane to fly faster than the speed of sound. Piloted by U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager, the X-1 reached a speed of 1,127 kilometers (700 miles) per hour, Mach 1.06, at an altitude of 13,000 meters (43,000 feet). Yeager named the airplane "Glamorous Glennis" in tribute to his wife.
Air-launched at an altitude of 7,000 meters (23,000 feet) from the bomb bay of a Boeing B-29, the X-1 used its rocket engine to climb to its test altitude. It flew a total of 78 times, and on March 26, 1948, with Yeager at the controls, it attained a speed of 1,540 kilometers (957 miles) per hour, Mach 1.45, at an altitude of 21,900 meters (71,900 feet). This was the highest velocity and altitude reached by a manned airplane up to that time.
Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager (/ˈjeɪɡər/ YAY-gər, February 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.
Yeager was raised in Hamlin, West Virginia. His career began in World War II as a private in the United States Army, assigned to the Army Air Forces in 1941. After serving as an aircraft mechanic, in September 1942, he entered enlisted pilot training and upon graduation was promoted to the rank of flight officer (the World War II Army Air Force version of the Army's warrant officer), later achieving most of his aerial victories as a P-51 Mustang fighter pilot on the Western Front, where he was credited with shooting down 11.5 enemy aircraft (the half credit is from a second pilot assisting him in a single shootdown). On October 12, 1944, he attained "ace in a day" status, shooting down five enemy aircraft in one mission.
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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 in 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 flown by Chuck Yeager, was the first piloted 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.
In 1942, the United Kingdom's Ministry of Aviation began a top-secret project with Miles Aircraft to develop the world's first aircraft capable of breaking the sound barrier. The project resulted in the development of the prototype turbojet-powered Miles M.52, designed to reach 1,000 miles per hour (870 kn; 1,600 km/h) (over twice the existing airspeed record) in level flight, and to climb to an altitude of 36,000 ft (11 km) in 1 min and 30 sec.
By 1944, the design of the M.52 was 90% complete and Miles was told to go ahead with the construction of three prototypes. Later that year, the Air Ministry signed an agreement with the United States to exchange high-speed research and data. Miles' Chief Aerodynamicist Dennis Bancroft stated that Bell Aircraft personnel visited Miles later in 1944...
General characteristics
Crew: 1
Length: 30 ft 11 in (9.42 m)
X-1A, X-1B, X-1D: 35 ft 8 in (10.87 m)
X-1C: 35.0 ft (10.67 m)
Wingspan: 28 ft 0 in (8.53 m)
X-1E: 22 ft 10 in (6.96 m)
Height: 10 ft 10 in (3.30 m)
Wing area: 130 sq ft (12 m2) ⠀
X-1E 115 sq ft (10.7 m2)
Airfoil: #1 NACA 65-110 (10% thickness)
#2, X-1A, X-1B, X-1D NACA 65-108 (8% thickness)
X-1E NACA 64A004
Empty weight: 7,000 lb (3,175 kg)
X-1A, X-1B, X-1C, X-1D: 6,880 lb (3,120 kg)
X-1E: 6,850 lb (3,110 kg)
Gross weight: 12,250 lb (5,557 kg)
X-1A, X-1B, X-1C, X-1D: 16,487 lb (7,478 kg)
X-1E: 14,750 lb (6,690 kg)
Powerplant: 1 × Reaction Motors XLR11-RM-3 4-chamber liquid-fuelled rocket engine, 6,000 lbf (27 kN) thrust
X-1E: Reaction Motors RMI LR-8-RM-5 6,000 lbf (27 kN)
Performance
Maximum speed: 1,612 mph (2,594 km/h, 1,401 kn)
X-1E: 1,450 mph (1,260 kn; 2,330 km/h)
Maximum speed: Mach 2.44
X-1E: M2.24
Endurance: 5 minutes powered flight
X-1A, X-1B, X-1C, X-1D: 4 minutes 40 seconds powered flight
X-1E: 4 minutes 45 seconds powered flight
Service ceiling: 70,000 ft (21,000 m)
X-1A, X-1B, X-1C, X-1D: 90,000 ft (27,000 m)
X-1E: 75,000 ft (23,000 m)
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To me Chuck Yeager and Paul Tibets were a lot alike. Both were Brigadier Generals and aviation legends.
Great work. Yeager was a force.
Chuck Yeager, the "Prince" of my early 1980s-1990s youth.
Except for his EX Aircraft, I deticated my model building to his TestAircraft as a hobby.
BG Yeager also recorded a PSA TV spot for the Civil Air Patrol, which offers to it's members an aerospace award named for him.
This fkn channel kills it with everything it does. So good. Really glad I found it, no thanks to UA-cam, which never promotes it, because I wouldn’t have watched the good content otherwise.
Read his autobiography so knew the conent of this, but really interesting to see the old photo and video footage.
Great book!
The Bell X-1 Rocket plane powered by rocket engines interesting airplane.
He was NOT the first to fly faster than sound.
He was the first to do so in LEVEL flight.
As far as I'm aware there were only two claims of supersonic dives pre Yeager, Hans Mutke in a me262 which is has been debunked as not possible in the 262, and George Welch who always denied it, no sources exist accept "a trust me bro we heard him do it"
Unique pilot and unique F-104
F-104 win air combat over Taiwan straight
F104 was hypersonic airframe
He’s the perfect example in which every real American pilot should aim for. The perfect pilot.