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Bell X-1: How one weird plane shattered the sound barrier

The X-1’s fuselage was designed to resemble a .50 caliber bullet—one of the only shapes known to have stable flight at ...
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Colorado College students break sound barrier — with a ping-pong ball

In a classroom at Colorado College’s Barnes Science Center on Thursday, several CC students and a small group of observers from the National Society of Professional Engineers watched as the air ...