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Puzzle #77 was X-1.
The Bell X-1 is a rocket engine–powered aircraft, designated originally as the XS-1, and was a joint National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics–U.S. Army Air Forces–U.S. Air Force supersonic research project built by Bell Aircraft. Conceived during 1944 and designed and built in 1945, it achieved a speed of nearly 1,000 miles per hour in 1948.
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What the record says
Puzzle 77 ran on 26 Sep 2026 and the answer was X-1, played with 6 guesses against 5 columns. On the record: Manufacturer - Bell; Origin - United States; Role - other. The numbers: First flight - 1940. 1 of the 5 columns is blank in the source (Number built), so nobody could score it either way.
Plane-dle builds its record from Wikidata - CC0 1.0. The description above comes from the same place the game credits on every reveal: English Wikipedia summary excerpt, CC BY-SA 4.0. The puzzle itself is still playable in the archive, and every answer that has been and gone is listed on the past-answers page.
How it scored
- Manufacturer
- Bell
- Origin
- United States
- First flight
- 1940
- Role
- other
- Number built
- Not recorded