He once built the world’s largest pulse-jet engine and mounted it in a 1965 Jaguar ... who’s usually wearing his trademark ...

And the plane that would ultimately achieve that goal would be the experimental Bell X-1 jet. The National Advisory ...

Engine development continued ... the turbine for combat. The first jet aircraft flown by the U.S. Army Air Forces, predecessor to the Air Force, was the Bell XP-59 Airacomet, which never entered ...