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...hope, nevertheless last week jockeyed a pencil-nosed, silver-painted Navy F8U1 Crusader jet from Long Beach, Calif, to New York City for a new coast-to-coast record of 3 hr. 23 min. First to span the nation at supersonic speed, Pilot Glenn averaged 726 m.p.h. (or Mach 1.1 at his average flying altitude of 35,000 ft.), cut 21 minutes off the previous record established in March 1955 by Air Force Lieut. Colonel Robert R. Scott in a Republic F-84F jet. A pathfinder jet kept Glenn alerted to weather ahead. Three times-near Albuquerque, Olathe, Kans...
Showing it off last week at Fort Worth, Texas, Air Force officers happily hinted that the Hustler's performance was forcing a flurry of tactical recalculations. It has flown at Mach 2-twice the speed of sound (Mach 2 at 40,000 ft. is 1,300 m.p.h.). A few ultramodern U.S. fighters may be faster in short spurts, but they would have trouble climbing from the ground in time to catch a Hustler at high altitude. Supersonic F-102 fighters must use their afterburners, at heavy cost in fuel, to stay anywhere near it. Even many rocket-pushed missiles...
...Missile Age is famed old North American, whose proud boast is that it has made more airplanes than any other company. With its F-100 Super Sabre due to be phased out, it has a newer F107 version competing with Republic Aviation's F-105 in a Mach 2 fighter-bomber program...
LOCKHEED F-104, the U.S. Air Force's hottest jet fighter, is working out so well that Air Force is boosting orders, possibly by as much as $200 million. Airmen buzz that needle-nosed ship, already a Mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h. at 30,000 ft.) performer, has done close to Mach 3 or nearly 2,000 m.p.h...
Everest decided to go ahead anyway. When the rocket engine took its last gulp of alcohol, water and liquid oxygen, he was screaming through the sky at 1,900 m.p.h. (close to mach 2.9). far from his goal, but also far above the previous record of 1,650 m.p.h. set in 1953 by his friend, Major Chuck Yeager. Exactly 20 minutes after he had been cut loose from the B-50, Pete Everest, gliding toward the field, was overtaken by a supersonic F-100 that had been left far behind by his wild ride, and escorted to a dead-stick...