I thought it was shaped like a machine gun bullet (a M50?) since that was known to go
supersonic.


"Vito" wrote in message ...
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.