On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:51:43 +0000, Bjørnar Bolsøy wrote:

Scott Ferrin wrote in
:


Wright Flyer
B-29 (nuked Japan)
U-2 (Cold War Symbol)
Concord
SR-71
Harrier (First real VTOL)
B-52 (if it ever *becomes* "history") Me 262
X-1
X-15
KC-135


The Bell X-1, for breaking the notorious soundbarrier, thereby writing
itself into history as one of the greatest aviation moments of all times.

Except for the fact that the X-1 was NOT the first manned aircraft to
break the sound barrier, it was the F-86 that broke the sound barrier
first. One of the great myths in aviation lore is that the X-1 was first.



Regards...