Aviation History

X-CITING TIMES

he postwar era extending through the 1950s is rightly remembered as a time of rapid aviation innovation, as aircraft designers developed new technologies and test pilots pushed the flight envelope to Mach 1 and beyond. Beginning with the Bell X-1’s first supersonic flight (story, P. 44) and continuing

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