Before Chuck Yeagers legendary 1947 flight in the Bell X-1, Britain was on the brink of smashing the sound barrier with the Miles M.52. Sleek, rocket-powered, and years ahead of its time, it promised to be the first aircraft past Mach 1. But politics and a one-sided data-sharing deal with the U.S. killed the project in 1946. In this Short, we explore how the UKs groundbreaking design vanished, and why some say its legacy lived on in American jets.
In our linked Short, we look at why the Soviet Union and the U.S. raced to capture Nazi scientists after WWII and how those high-tech secrets shaped the Cold War.
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