again hollywood F's it up...that is the bell x-1 which was flown by chuck yeager... & chuck's alive, i have met him...lol .it never crashed before breaking the sound barrier...1 model had a bad landing trying to breaking mach2 but it wasnt THAT bad of a wreck. this is a remake of an old flick i watched when i was a kid...the name escapes me but i do remember watching it....actually think it started with a pilot who broke the barrier but couldnt recover..??? (in the movie anyways ). in it... there WERE flights with other ac trying to break the sound barrier where compressibility and the reversal of flight controls were discovered ( giving weight to the benefits of swept wing and delta wing designs ) but not in an x-1. still could be a decent and worthwhile flick to watch....just dont walk away believing you saw a historically rendition of true facts.
...A total of three X-1s were made, but by far the most famous was the X-1-1 (#46-062), which was used in the first supersonic flight. Captain Yeager, who named the X-1-1 "Glamorous Glennis" after his wife, piloted it to its top speed, Mach 1.45. Another USAF pilot, Lt. Col. Frank Everest, Jr., took the X-1-1 to its highest altitude of 71,902 feet. Ten different pilots flew the Bell X-1-1 on a total of 82 flights before the plane was retired on May 12, 1950
for more on the x-1...
http://www.specialtypress.com/vstore...ID=8&chapter=7
http://www.ais.org/~schnars/aero/x-planes.htm