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    Bell X-1 drop launch from a Boeing B-29 Superfortress - video

    Bell X-1 being drop launched from a Boeing B-29 Superfortress over the Mojave Desert. On October 14, 1947, an X-1 piloted by USAF Captain Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, after the craft was air-launched from the bomb bay of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress.




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    I always knew the X1 was carried aloft under the B29 but what I didn't know was that the superfortress was modified so heavily as to have over half of its fuselage cut away

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