The_navigator© wrote in message ...
The X1 was designed in the UK!

Nav, Your an idiot, or a troll. You can not do a little thing like
search the internet to find the facts.

Larry Bell and his team at Skunk Works designed the X1.

He was not in the UK.

His famous quote is "Show me a man who cannot
bother to do little things, and I'll show you a man who cannot be
trusted to do big things."

Larry was first at all the following.

FIRST twin-engine escort fighter (Airacuda)

FIRST aircraft to mount 37mm cannon and flexible gun turrets
(Airacuda)

FIRST modern multi-place fighter, establishing a new type for the Army
Air Force (Airacuda)

FIRST american fighter airplane designed around its armament (P39
Airacobra)

FIRST use of tricycle landing gear on modern military aircraft (P39)

FIRST satisfactory .50 caliber machine gun shock dampener, which
became
standard for both Army and Navy

FIRST modern all-wood military fighter (XP77)

FIRST helicopter with automatic stabilizing control

FIRST jet-propelled fighter in the US (P-59 Airacomet)

FIRST commercial helicopter

FIRST supersonic airplane (X-1)

[DPM's note: there is some evidence to suggest that a Messerschmitt
ME-163 Komet (the rocket propelled plane) may actually have gone
supersonic
during one test flight, but there was no instrumented proof of it
so the X-1 and Chuck Yeager get the credit.....]

FIRST commercial helicopter with 200 HP engine and skid landing gear

FIRST airplane able to vary degree of wing sweepback during flight
(X5)

FIRST radio-guided bomb (Tarzon)

FIRST helicopter designed specifically for anti-submarine warfare
(HSL-1)

FIRST airplane able to fly at speeds 2.5 times the speed of sound and
at
altitudes of 90,000 feet (X1A)

FIRST turbine powered helicopter (XH-13F)

FIRST jet-propelled VTOL airplane

FIRST automatic carrier landing system

FIRST convertiplane incorporating tilting-rotor system (XV-3)

Joe
MSV RedCloud With nice fitting sails, not all wrinkley near the boom
like NAVs.




Cheers MC

Joe wrote:

"katysails" wrote in message ...

Someone please take his peyote away....




He speaks the truth Katy, After WW11 we imported all that German
talent. One of the main reasons we put man on the moon first. However
body of the X1/hull and wing designs are two different subject.

What Horvath is saying is that if Captn Neal wants to go supersonic
in his coranado he will have to re-design his sails to a more swept
back delta configration.

Joe
RedCloud