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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Infantry, field artillery and aircraft ammunition was likewise carefully guarded by Ordnance to keep it clean. When the attack came, planes at Bellows Field had no .30-cal. machine-gun bullets...
...vast speed include one that a P-80 was flown from California to New York in three hours and 57 minutes. (Best previous nonstop time: six hours, 39½ minutes). Its power is a kerosene-burning jet engine: it has no propeller. Its round nose houses six 50-cal. machine guns. On its wings it can carry either bombs or fuel tanks. Wings and torpedo-like fuselage are painted and polished to the slickness...
...tunnels, designed to discover how fast and high a plane can go before it burns up, falls apart or bursts, are at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and at the Curtiss-Wright plant in Buffalo, N.Y. Cal Tech proudly calls its tunnel, financed by four California planemakers, the world's most advanced. It will test all-metal models with 8-to-10-ft. wing spans, at air speeds up to 750 m.p.h., generated by two giant aluminum fans...
Meanwhile at the New England Prep School meet at Andover, Rollo Sink, former national collegiate mile title-holder (4.17) from Southern Cal was beating workhorse Jim Rafferty by 10 yards in 4.25. Sink, who is currently attending the Navy Supply School here, has been working out under Jaakko for several weeks, and it was Jaakko who gave him instructions on how to run his race against Rafferty...
Four years ago, Cal Tech and the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. began a large-scale experiment at Lockheed's Burbank plant...