Word: 86d
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...American, whose F-86 Sabre jet fighter set a world speed record of 671 m.p.h. in 1948, knew that its improved versions, the F-86B and F-86C, were in Dutch's own words "obsolete before they got off the drawing board." It is now producing the F-86D and F-86E, and in Engineer Kindelberger's view, they are obsolete too. When the Navy wanted a long-range bomber big enough to carry the Abomb, it turned to Kindelberger. The result was the AJ-1, with one turbojet and two reciprocating engines...