Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faster Ahead." Not even ten catties of gold, say refugees from Changchun, can buy an air ticket from the dying northeastern capital. The emergency planes that bring in supplies for the Nationalist garrison take only highest priority people...
...Bell XS-1, with its rocket motor and two-minute fuel supply, is merely a flying laboratory, but the F-86A is a practical military aircraft (see BUSINESS). One of the secrets of its speed is probably its swept-back wings. When the plane itself is flying faster than sound, the air passes over the back-slanted wing at less than sonic speed, and so makes less trouble...
...Trained observers," says Aviation Week, "have been reporting rumors for months that a Russian jet plane has flown faster than sound." Its estimated speed: 745 m.p.h. "The plane can now be identified as the Russian design of the DFS 346, a plane begun by the Germans . . . The Germans never finished the DFS 346, and it, along with its engineers, presumably went into Russian possession...
...surprise, Consolidated Vultee got no more orders for its B-36 "flying cigar" (it is building 95). The Air Force has decided that the faster B-5O is better for its purposes...
With last week's good news, Secretary Symington added a word of warning: all contracts will be given a searching review in September and again in December. They may be revised if production isn't up to snuff, or if better ships are developed faster than expected...