Word: douglasmen
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...Skyrocket, the first man-carrying plane (as distinct from guided missiles) powered by both jet and rocket energy. Built by Douglas, the Skyrocket is a swordfish-shaped, back-swept-winged sister ship of the Navy's Skystreak, present holder of the world's speed record (650.6 m.p.h.). Douglasmen hoped that it would make air history by breaking through the sonic wall-i.e., by flying faster than the speed of sound (about 765 m.p.h. at sea level). ¶ In St. Louis, the McDonell Aircraft Corp. put the world's first ramjet helicopter* through its paces...
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