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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dQWZz2Fr7E


Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...043#post125512
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...301#post126898
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...1977#post75522

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