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Floberg also showed his audience two more new shipborne jets in production-a bat-winged interceptor called the Douglas F4D "Skyray," and a needle-nosed fighter named the McDonnell F3H. "Demon"-and announced that all six planes would be on duty with the fleet within a few years...
...public got a good look last week at Britain's spectacular new interceptor, the Gloster GA-5. Photographed for the first time in the air, the bizarre, dartlike R.A.F. plane marks a milestone in aviation: the coming-of-age of the "delta" wing...
...Last Supper was Leonardo da Vinci's, and the Spitfire was Reginald Joseph Mitchell's, circa 1900-1937. Subsequent tampering, even for a decade, by Joe Smith [TIME, Sept. 24] will never alter the identity of the designer of the fateful interceptor...
...attraction was the cigar-shaped, swept-wing Hawker P-1067 interceptor-fighter, powered by a Rolls-Royce turbojet and touted as the "fastest fighter in the world." To show what the P-1067 can do, Hawker's chief test pilot, Neville Duke, opened the throttle and snapped his plane low over the runway at 15 m.p.h. faster than the official world record (670 m.p.h.), held by the U.S.'s F-86 Sabre. The whip-cracking sound of its passage hit the crowd like an explosion and knocked a microphone out of an announcer's hand...
...Yakovlev). Rocket-powered, swept-wing interceptor, still in research stage. Speed, about 850 m.p.h.; rate of climb, 16,000 ft. a min.; endurance, less than 5 min.; armament, unknown, possibly four cannon in nose or rockets...