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...seeping out to the public. According to good authority, the speed reached by the rocket plane was probably above 1,000 m.p.h. When its oxygen & alcohol fuel was exhausted (after about two minutes at full power), the pilot had to land with dead controls, at 160 m.p.h. Two XS-1s have been built, the first for the Air Force, the second for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Both have reached supersonic speed, and four more of them are on order...
...Germans swore they would deny Antwerp to the Allies as a port. In Belgian cities along the V-bomb routes, sirens wail frequently, as the noisy V-1s pass overhead. But no sirens sound in Antwerp, the bombs' principal target. In Antwerp men never leave the ack-ack guns, the city's defense against the V-1s. Against the faster-than-sound V-2s, there is no defense...
...most Londoners were convinced that they were in for something infernally worse: a rocket-propelled robomb whose deadly war head might be ten times the size of V-1s, with explosive force far greater than even the R.A.F.'s six-ton factory-buster (see below...
...yard Relay--Won by Providence (Despres, Lisy, Soltysiak, Gannon); second, Harvard (Harting, Houston, Ball Jones). Time--4m., 1s...
...plant at Middle River, Md., got its start with a real automobile-type assembly line with thumping orders of 151 Bio bombers from the Army and 117 more from The Netherlands. North American sold 350 of its BT-9s to the Air Corps and 457 BT-9s and BC-1s (a combat edition) to France and Britain to start its line. Douglas with an order for 100 of its new attack bombers from France, has a $15,000,000 order from the Air Corps for the new ships...