Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teamwork Is All. In preparation, Allied aircraft had ranged far and wide, attacking German railheads, highways, bridges, airfields, fuel dumps. Before D-day arrived, only one German fighter field within easy range of the Nettuno beachhead remained usable. On the invasion's second day, the Luftwaffe made only 100 sorties to the Allies...
...Marshalls themselves Army and Navy bombers continued to pound, as they had for two months-bombing and strafing Wotje, Maleolap, Jaluit, Mili and Kwajalein, attacking shipping, airfields, fuel and ammunition dumps in the same pattern of strategic bombing which had preceded the assault on the Gilberts...
...flame-throwing infantryman presses a push-button switch to get the spark that ignites hydrogen near the nozzle. This acts as a pilot light, ignites the fuel oil emerging under pressure from nitrogen. Back of him are three tanks: a small one for gas pressure, a pair of larger ones for fuel...
What makes the jet-propulsion plane fly is the extreme pressure built up within the mechanism by air compression and burning fuel. This pressure is exhausted to the rear through the jet opening, thus exerts a powerful forward reaction, or thrust, on the plane...
...will soon go into production, and pilots undoubtedly will be trained for them. Whether the development will move fast enough for them to play a part in this war no man can say. But for aviation in the future, jet propulsion undoubtedly has dazzling possibilities of speed, lightness and fuel economy. One problem a propellerless plane solves automatically is that of supersonic speeds at propeller tips; engineers have discovered that a propeller encounters "compressibility burble" and loses its effect on the air when the blade tips whirl at a speed approaching that of sound, about 750 m.p.h. at sea level...