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Rollout of the experimental Bell X-5 variable-sweep wing aircraft at Bell Aircraft factory in New York, June 1951. Two X-5 prototypes were built and used for test flights up to Mach 0.9, but one X-5 was lost in a crash in 1953 at Edwards AFB. The surviving X-5 aircraft is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The X-5 was partially based on the incomplete German Messerschmitt P.1101 fighter prototype captured at the end of WWII from the experim...

Rollout of the experimental Bell X-5 variable-sweep wing aircraft at Bell Aircraft factory in New York, June 1951. Two X-5 prototypes were built and used for test flights up to Mach 0.9, but one X-5 was lost in a crash in 1953 at Edwards AFB. The surviving X-5 aircraft is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The X-5 was partially based on the incomplete German Messerschmitt P.1101 fighter prototype captured at the end of WWII from the experimental facility at Oberammergau, Germany.