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PictionID:55689919 - Catalog:21_000024.tif - Title:Bell XFM-1 36-351 - Filename:21_000024.tif - ---Image from the Jay Miller Collection. Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum ( http://www.sandiegoairandspace.org/library/stillimages.html )

The X-planes are a series of experimental United States aircraft and rockets, used to test and evaluate new technologies and aerodynamic concepts. They have an X designator, which indicates the research mission within the US system of aircraft designations. The first, the Bell X-1, became well known in 1947 after it became the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. Most of the X-planes have been operated by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) or, later, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), often in conjunction with the United States Air Force. The majority of X-plane testing has occurred at Edwards Air Force Base. Some of the X-planes have been well publicized, while others have been developed in secrecy. Most X-planes are not expected to go into full-scale production.

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1937 - 1940
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X Planes

X Series of U.S. Experimental Airplanes
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label_outline Explore 36 351, V 1710 13, Xfm 1 Airacuda

Corporal Leonard Rodriguez, USMC, (right) and Lance Corporal Andres Almaguer, USMC, (left), make adjustments on the Allison T56-A-15 turboprop engine. The Marines are in the process of swapping an engine on a Marine KC-130 Hercules at a forward operating base in the Operation ENDURING FREEDOM area of operations. Both are members of the Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron-352 (VMGR-352), Combined Task Force 58

Members of the US Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Unit from Garfield, California (CA) pose for a photograph in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft during the Airfest 2000 air show held at March Air Reserve Base (ARB), California (CA)

Bombflygplan B 4 och B 3 från F 1 Hässlö på Hästholmens flygfält. Reproduktion från vykort.

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. On North American's "Sunshine" assembly line at Inglewood, California, a B-25 bomber is prepared for painting. Paper is taped to those areas to be painted. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F(Flying Fortress) bombing planes. Lubricating and servicing a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers

North American B-25 bomber is prepared for painting on the outside assembly line, N[orth] A[merican] Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif.

Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Another B-24E (Liberator) bomber nears completion on one of the assembly lines at Ford's big Willow Run plant. A paint job comes next. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians. Ford's Willow Run Plant, Michigan

Kansas City, Kansas. Workmen assembling parts of a plane at the North American Aviation Inc. plant

A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey, assigned to Marine

A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor and a P-51 Mustang fly

15_002554 Dehavilland Mosquito M.25 V-1650, N37878

Vintage World War II-era aircraft flies through the

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aviation prototype bell bell airacuda allison v 1710 airacuda allison v 1710 xfm 1 bell yfm 1 airacuda 36 351 airplane bell xfm 1 airacuda bell aircraft bell xfm 1 v 1710 13 bell yfm 1 military aviation aircraft xfm 1 airacuda ww 2 bombers 1940 s 40 s military aircraft propeller driven aircraft 1940 s aircrafts ww 2 airctraft san diego air and space museum