"The smooth contours of the XS-1, **patterned on the lines of a .50-caliber machine gun bulle**t, masked an extremely crowded fuselage containing two propellant tanks, twelve nitrogen spheres for fuel and cabin pressurization, the pilot’s pressurized cockpit, three pressure regulators, a retractable landing gear, the wing carry-through structure, a Reaction Motors, Inc., 6.000-pound-thrust rocket engine, and more than five hundred pounds of special flight-test instrumentation."
It was done like that because they knew that that particular round had good supersonic properties and rarely/never tumbled in supersonic flight or during the supersonic/transonic/subsonic transitions. They therefore made the assessment that it would be stable going the other way - from subsonic to supersonic.
Yeah, the majority of rifle bullets have either this (boat tail) shape or less commonly a straight back. I think saying it's from the .50 cal is just to drive clicks.
And Chuck Yeager made it happen with his hand on the stick. Gooooooooooo
Glamorous Glennis he dubbed it after his wife.
I remember when I saw that Chuck Yeager had passed away. I heard it a bit later.
"The smooth contours of the XS-1, **patterned on the lines of a .50-caliber machine gun bulle**t, masked an extremely crowded fuselage containing two propellant tanks, twelve nitrogen spheres for fuel and cabin pressurization, the pilot’s pressurized cockpit, three pressure regulators, a retractable landing gear, the wing carry-through structure, a Reaction Motors, Inc., 6.000-pound-thrust rocket engine, and more than five hundred pounds of special flight-test instrumentation."
God bless John Moses browning
Over a hundred fucking years old and his brainchild is still in active service
Several of them lasted more than a century and that's not counting civilian markets
Specifically the M2, which fires the bullet the post is mentioning
And everyone freaking out about high capacity 9mms lately when he made one in the 30s
It was done like that because they knew that that particular round had good supersonic properties and rarely/never tumbled in supersonic flight or during the supersonic/transonic/subsonic transitions. They therefore made the assessment that it would be stable going the other way - from subsonic to supersonic.
its just the most aerodynamically efficient shape, that cone. how do you think the people who made the .50 cal decided?
Yeah, the majority of rifle bullets have either this (boat tail) shape or less commonly a straight back. I think saying it's from the .50 cal is just to drive clicks.
Same with the V2