Bell X1, Levon Helm Have The Right Stuff

I love it when clients have something in common. In the case of Levon Helm and Bell X1, they may be far apart musically but they share something else: a relationship to the Bell X1, the airplane that broke the speed of sound in 1947.

In Levon's case, it's purely fictional. Here he is as Captain Ridley in the film "The Right Stuff" (also starring another hero of mine, Sam Shepard):



Bell X1 got its name from said airplane, now hanging in the Smithsonian Institution beside other landmarks of flight:

Pretty cool!