James Wyld with One of His Rocket Motors
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James Wyld with one of his rocket motors at an ARS test in Midvale, New Jersey, 1941. He later helped to design the engine for the Bell X-1.
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James Wyld with one of his rocket motors at an American Rocket Society test in Midvale, New Jersey, 1941. He helped design the Reaction Motors XLR-11 engine, which powered Chuck Yeager’s Bell X-1 airplane through the “sound barrier” in 1947.
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Princeton University Library
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SI 2003-33736
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1941
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