Intent on being the first to break the sound barrier, NACA (NASA’s predecessor), the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Army Air Force jointly commissioned Bell to create the first-ever X-plane ...

He said that he was just doing his job. Now I can say I met the legendary pilot. The Bell X-1 program showed that the United States aerospace efforts exhibited maximum innovation and ingenuity.

The Bell X-2 was built to break barriers and reach the edge of space—but pushing the limits came at a devastating cost. This Mach 3 rocket plane marked a turning point in aviation history ...

It was On This Day that things went bad for Captain Milburn G. “Mel” Apt, working for Buffalo’s Larry “Bell Aerospace” and flying the Bell X-2. The year was 1956. He hit Mach 3—making ...

Bell has completed wind tunnel testing of its X-plane model at the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University, part of the DARPA (Defense Advance Research Project ...