X-1 Pics

[ACarey]

A couple of X-1 pics.

[TAdan]

I dont think I've ever seen pictures of the X-1E. I know of the regular X-1 and X-1B but the 1-E is news to me Thanks for sharing.

[ACarey]

I dont think I've ever seen pictures of the X-1E. I know of the regular X-1 and X-1B but the 1-E is news to me Thanks for sharing.

I have a few more

[Jerry O'Neill]

I dont think I've ever seen pictures of the X-1E. I know of the regular X-1 and X-1B but the 1-E is news to me Thanks for sharing.

The X-1E (serial 46-063) was actually the refitted X-1 #2 that you've seen so many photos of when it was orange. Serial 46-062 was "Glamorous Glennis" (opps, can I type that with out paying a royalty? )and 063 was it's sister ship with a different airfoil design to the wing. There are many pics of it on the ramp, side by side with 062. The X-1E came about due to the loss of two of the later, larger, X-1's because of explosions caused by the Ulmer leather gaskets in the oxygen tanks. They modified the X-1 (46-063) to take up the slack in the testing program. It is still with us and on display on a pole at the Dryden Center at Edwards Air Force Base.
Jerry

[The Inspector]

The X-1E was modified by NACA to a low pressure fuel system using airframe 46-063. The pilot is Joe Walker, killed later in the collision of the F-104 he was flying and the XB-70.
As far as I know, it's still on a pylon @ Antelope Valley College after being moved from Eddys Air Patch in front of the Dryden Center building

[ACarey]

I have a more X-1E images but only one of an orange X-1 that was named GG.

[ACarey]

Another X-1E

[The Inspector]

What about shots of the DOUGLAS D-558-2 SKY ROCKET, the first airplane to Mach 2?

[ACarey]

What about shots of the DOUGLAS D-558-2 SKY ROCKET, the first airplane to Mach 2?

I have a few.

[SaxMan]

I dont think I've ever seen pictures of the X-1E. I know of the regular X-1 and X-1B but the 1-E is news to me Thanks for sharing.

The X-1E (serial 46-063) was actually the refitted X-1 #2 that you've seen so many photos of when it was orange. Serial 46-062 was "Glamorous Glennis" (opps, can I type that with out paying a royalty? )and 063 was it's sister ship with a different airfoil design to the wing. There are many pics of it on the ramp, side by side with 062. The X-1E came about due to the loss of two of the later, larger, X-1's because of explosions caused by the Ulmer leather gaskets in the oxygen tanks. They modified the X-1 (46-063) to take up the slack in the testing program. It is still with us and on display on a pole at the Dryden Center at Edwards Air Force Base.
Jerry

My 4th Grade teacher was Hugh Dryden's daughter. She had some absolutely GREAT stories from the early days of NACA / NASA and the space program through Apollo/Soyuz.