Talk:The Sound Barrier

Please refer to Category:Film articles by quality. This article needs at least a good plot section and something on reception by the public or critics, to become class start. Hoverfish 22:58, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Plot differences? In the DVD forming part of "The David Lean Centenary Collection", Ridgefield is neither an oil magnate nor an aircraft designer. The Lawless One (talk) 12:12, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Production: first plane to break the sound barrier

Production, para 3: "the first aircraft to break the sound barrier was the rocket-powered Bell X-1 flown by Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force in 1947” - five years before this film was released. But only with the help of a crucially important technical feature developed by British research and donated to the US: the all-moving vertical tail. The British programme to develop a manned supersonic plane was abandoned at a relatively late stage in 1946 in favour of missile research. The film’s central premise is thus not simply a chauvinistic conceit. See Prototypes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_M.52 Perhaps this needs to be acknowledged by more than a footnote. Robocon1 (talk) 19:02, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That "image" certainly doesn't show an airplane with an "all moving tail". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.234.100.169 (talk) 19:53, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]