April 5, 2024
Bell X-1 Chuck Yeager Wood Model Airplane
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Item up for bid is a model of the Bell X-1 Jet Airplane that Chuck Yeager flew to break the sound barrier. The model is hand carved from solid mahogany and completely hand painted in the Bell X-1 Orange Test Colors. It has excellent detail including "Glamorous Glennis" painted on the nose. Wingspan is about 14 inches and length is about 17 inches. The model was built by professional craftsmen and is of the highest quality. On October 14, 1947, flying the Bell XS-1, Capt. Charles "Chuck" Yeager, USAF, became the first pilot to fly faster than sound. The XS-1, later designated X-l, reached Mach 1.06, 700 mph, at an altitude of 43,000 feet, over the Mojave Desert near Muroc Dry Lake, California. The flight demonstrated that aircraft could be designed to fly faster than sound, and the concept of a 'sound barrier" crumbled into myth. The XS-1 was developed as part of a cooperative program initiated in 1944 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and the U.S. Army Air Forces (later the U.S. Air Force) to develop special manned transonic and supersonic research aircraft. On March 16, 1945, the Army Air Technical Service Command awarded the Bell Aircraft Corporation of Buffalo, New York, a contract to develop three transonic and supersonic research aircraft under project designation MX-653. The Army assigned the designation
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