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Add new Web site: Engineering and Technology History Wiki - First-Hand:The X-1 Project - Chapter 3 of the Experimental Research Airplanes and the Sound Barrier. Sep 20, 2019
Add new Web site: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum - Bell X-1. Sep 20, 2019
Replaced photograph. Apr 11, 2018
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - X-1. Jun 09, 2011
Add new Web site: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum - X-1. Jun 09, 2011
New article added. Dec 30, 2008
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