Topspeed wrote: ↑26 May 2005, 18:46
Topspeed wrote:One thing is certain...this kite pounded the way for Bell X-1 => DFS 228 sole and main purpose was to obtain MACH 1....not to glide at 45 glide ratio as what Huck is suggesting.
I am wrong here ( sorry folks ).
Americans started their supersonic project in 1944.
http://www.chuckyeager.org/htm_docs/x_1bgnd.shtml
They cannot have had accesss to DFS 228 data by then. Bell X-1 first flew in 1946. Broke the soundbarrrier in 1947.
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Huck also said only glideratio of 30 could have been obtained by the DFS 228.
The DFS 228 was only intended as a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft and only could fly at 560 miles per hour, but the designs for the Bell X-1 but also the unbuilt Miles M.52 were a product of homegrown thinking by aeronautical engineers in the US and UK.