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Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket Test Flight

The D558 program was conceived as a joint U.S. Navy/NACA research program for transonic and supersonic flight.

During the late 1940s and early 1950s, engineers and scientists at the Douglas Aircraft Co. researched supersonic aircraft. These experimental aircraft included the D-558-1 Skystreak, the D-558-2 Skyrocket, and the X-3 Stiletto.

The Skyrocket was the first Douglas plane to exceed the speed of sound and was the first aircraft ever to exceed Mach 2.

The Skyrocket program produced 3 aircraft and a total of 313 test flights between February 1948 and August 1956. 
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Unique identifier BI46771 
Boeing ID BIV16_D-558-2_01 
Type Video 
Duration 25s 
Size 720px × 480px   9MB 
License type RM 
Keywords
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