# Launching the Future of Flight- Aeronautics (20250220-AAV3554-NACA-Series-Aeronautics-Armstrong-v1)

In 1947, the American rocket-powered X-1 experimental aircraft broke the sound barrier. X-1 team members from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the NACA, founded the High-Speed Flight Research Station west of the Mojave Desert, which became NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center. Armstrong has been home to the design and testing of experimental aircraft since the sound barrier was broken.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: NASA Ames Research Center
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Launching_the_Future_of_Flight-_Aeronautics_(20250220-AAV3554-NACA-Series-Aeronautics-Armstrong-v1).webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Ames Research Center
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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