The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 sits on the Rogers Dry Lakebed at Muroc Air Force Base, California in 1949. Some airplane characteristics are:
<p>Fuselage length, feet 31.0
Wing span, feet 28.0
Horizontal tail width, feet 11.4
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Vertical tail height, feet 8.02 (above center line of plane).
NASA
1949
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