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...flying laboratory," General Electric Co. gives striking proof of the power of a jet engine. To test a new jet G.E. slings it under the bomb bay of a heavy B29. With its four 2,400-h.p. piston engines roaring, the bomber takes off and climbs to high altitude. Then the jet is started and its performance studied under varying conditions of speed, air density and temperature...
...crude bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rush jobs intended to be carried in a B29. There was little reason to keep their weight down, since the B-29s of the time could carry 20,000 lbs. from Saipan to the target. Long after Nagasaki, the weight of the first bombs leaked out. It was about...
Soviet fighters over the open sea. Demanded: punishment for the offenders and indemnity for loss of ten U.S. lives and property. Received: (three days later) a flat Soviet refusal, which insisted that the plane was not a Privateer but a "B29 Flying Fortress," and had been caught taking pictures over Latvia. The State Department went to work on another note repeating U.S. demands...
...week to having an airplane, the Douglas D558-II Skyrocket, that has flown faster than sound "many times." Like the Air Force's pioneering XI, the Navy's Skyrocket is a rocket plane. But the X-I is intended to be dropped at high altitude from a B29, while the Skyrocket takes off under its own power. Inside its slim body is a powerful turbojet engine as well as the rocket motor. The turbojet is used first (with rocket assist at takeoff), to get the plane to high altitude. Then the rocket motor pushes it to supersonic speed...
...weather worsened. But the third evening, a search pilot picked up unmistakable signs of debris from the sunken B29: a cluster of red and yellow boxes, a slab of aluminum, a bobbing flotsam of abandoned baggage. Another search plane was just heading back to base when its tail gunner thought he spotted a light. The plane turned back and at that moment the castaways decided to risk one of the last flares. "We knew then," said the search pilot, "that we had found them...