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JoAnn Castle
 
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Default Hull form for the sound barrier!

No one has gone transonic in a Coronado either.


"Vito" wrote in message
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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.