Hull form for the sound barrier!
Sidney Greenstreet wrote:
.... The BELL X-1, designed to go beyond the sound barrier!
The Coronado may be a fine boat but the X-1 was not shaped to go beyond
the sound barrier; nobody'd done it yet so nobody yet knew how a
supersonic plane should be shaped. They made it look like Buck Rogers
spacecraft. Notice that modern transonic planes look nothing like the
X-1.
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