The Bell X-1 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, 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. [Wikipedia]
Controls :
-AG 1-4 : unoccupied, but I kept it for hypothetical
Cleaver engine
-AG 5 : Activate/Deactivate nose wheel steering
-VTOL : Flaps
-Trim : Trim.
Special thanks to @RamboJutter for the USAF insignia.
I think I'll upload later another one with 4x Cleaver for the rocket engine which will be more realistic; and I hope I could make the "couple B-29/X-1", probably with @AntiSphere's "Lucy".
Please download and try, maybe give some feedback if you enjoyed 😉
Post-scriptum : this plane is 1:1 scaled. So don't worry about the dimensions.
Gallery :
Specifications
Spotlights
- This craft has been featured
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General Characteristics
- Successors 1 airplane(s)
- Created On Android
- Wingspan 28.7ft (8.8m)
- Length 32.8ft (10.0m)
- Height 11.2ft (3.4m)
- Empty Weight 7,550lbs (3,424kg)
- Loaded Weight 12,252lbs (5,557kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 2.751
- Wing Loading 77.5lbs/ft2 (378.4kg/m2)
- Wing Area 158.1ft2 (14.7m2)
- Drag Points 3931
Parts
- Number of Parts 243
- Control Surfaces 7
- Performance Cost 896
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this is nice. RIP Chuck Yeager. May you fly with the stars.
@WarHawk95 me follow u ok
@panzerisawsome in fact it was designed with the shape of a .50 BMG bullet, because the designers knew that this bullet was really stable when traveling at Mach 1+
looks like a carrot
:-D
:D
ooo nice
@Franticmatty
@WarHawk95 that's the old way. It is rather unreliable, but it could work.
@EternalDarkness I was thinking of making a "fuselage cage" with a detacher and the Cleaver inside, then you drop the Cleaver and it pushes you...
To use Cleaver as an engine, you'd have to make your plane a fuselage of a custom weapon and launch your plane after getting a lock onto a target. You'd launch it as a standard Cleaver. It should be possible to prevent Cleaver to turn towards the target on its own via XML.
@WarHawk95 No clue, @EternalDarkness knows about such things though.
@Gestour do you know how can I make this Cleaver engine ? If you could give some advice it would be great
@Gameboi14 how could it land if it hadn't gears ? 😂
Upvote if you learned something 🤣🤣
I thought the original didn't have landing gear
@WNP78
@Gestour
@realluochen9999
@RAF1
@RailfanEthan
@mikoyanster
@BogdanX
@SimpleFlow
@AdlerSteiner
@Minecraftpoweer
Well basic or not they turned out great! @WarHawk95
Thanks @Megaplanesinc . Honestly, I don't know when I would post it because this system is very hard to build : I tried the 'missile cage' system but every time I put all of it into my plane, once I started the gameplay and switched on the AGs 1-4, the missiles AND the whole plane exploded...
Thank you @Hyattorama ! The gears are pretty basic but I tried to make them as much realistic as possible.
Now, when is that cleaver engine one coming?
Real nice job on the livery and the windscreen and the custom landing gear