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...Force's Bell X-1 rocket plane started its famous supersonic flights by being dropped from a high-flying B29. Last week, trying something new, it took off from the ground for the first time under its own (four rocket motor) power. Piloted by 25-year-old Captain Charles E. Yeager, the first man to fly faster than sound, it streaked across the desert at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., and was airborne after only 2,300 ft., a shorter ground run than most standard fighters require...
...National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The airmen had experienced almost none of the difficulties predicted by scientists to be lying in the transonic area in which other aircraft had wobbled or plunged out of control (some had disintegrated). The XS-1, launched from the belly of a B29, had also reached altitudes never before penetrated by airplanes-up to 70,000 feet (previous record: 56,046 feet, set in 1938 by Colonel Mario Pezzi, an Italian...
...approximately eight beers after 2 o'clock. CRIMSON LAMPOON c. Prince, nr R. Zwoncus, 2b Beupre, sec Vat, 69 Neverstall, bs Ro. Rheault Hopkins, shrdin Ibis, B29 Leavitt, it R. Zwoneus,ss Schwebel, un L.H. Campbell, 3rd Mephredren, po Schlosinger, 9am Snowball, xxx Lowell, p Wattlings, ayd Cabot, c Conant...
...race for the supertransport market is a contest between thoroughbreds. Boeing has already entered its 114-passenger Stratocruiser, foaled in the same stable as the speedy B29. Consolidated Vultee is betting on the 400-passenger transport version of its XB-36 (stablemate of purse-winners like the Liberator, Catalina). In Burbank, Calif, this week the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. led its entry out of the paddock...
...unconventional XB-35 is the first of 15 which Northrop Aircraft, Inc. is building for the U.S. Army. Fully loaded, it will weigh 104½ tons v. 70-for Boeing's B29. The wing is 7½ feet thick, big enough to house: 1) a 15-man crew; 2) four 3,000-h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines in the wing, with eight-bladed dual-rotation propellers in the trailing edge; 3) enough fuel to fly 10,000 miles nonstop; 4) a bomb load guesstimated as high as 25 tons. By eliminating fuselage and tail surfaces, whose air resistance slows down...