"Ed Majden" wrote in message
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"Tex Houston" Or, the first straight winged aircraft to break the
sound
barrier -- the
Avro Canada CF-100 piloted by Janusz Zurakowski.

The Bell X-1 had straight wings.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/galleries/gal100/bellX1.html

Tex
The Bell X-1 was a rocket powered aircraft, not a jet!
Ed


And where did that restriction appear in the sentence: "Or, the first
straight winged aircraft to break the sound
barrier -- the
Avro Canada CF-100 piloted by Janusz Zurakowski." ? I just took it at face
value. Should I have read his mind?

Tex