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...Mach 2. By any standard the Crusader is a hot plane. It packs missiles and fast-firing 20-mm. cannons, has a 1,000 mi. combat range, a service ceiling of 55,000 ft. Its top speed with a Pratt & Whitney J57 engine (more than 15,000 Ibs. of thrust with afterburner) is close to Mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h. at 30,000 ft.) in level flight. What helps make such speed possible for a carrier plane is the Crusader's stubby, sharply swept wings: they are ingeniously hinged, can be tilted upwards to act as enormous flaps...
...Aeronautics at Cleveland. It has been abuilding since 1952, and so far as the Western world knows, it is the most powerful in operation. Engines up to 5 ft. in diameter can be tested in its 10 ft.-by-10 ft. throat, fed with air rushing past at Mach 3.5 (1,800 m.p.h.). To move so much air at this speed requires monstrous fans that soak...
...does not expect it to solve all problems, such as an enemy hit on the cockpit itself. "In many cases, however," says Douglas Engineer Albert Mayo, "it will enable the pilot to survive. It will not guarantee him a comfortable bailout, and if the jet is headed earthward at Mach 2 and 6,000 ft. off the deck, nothing can save...
...Century Series jets (TIME, Feb. 20), the F-104, like its first jet ancestor, the Lockheed F-80, has stubby, bumblebee-like wings, jutting straight out from a long, needle-nosed fuselage. With a General Electric J-79 engine, the Starfighter has an estimated top speed close to Mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h. at 30,000 ft.) in level flight...
...addition, the planes also needed new methods to test them, since they fly in a world where things happen so fast that human reactions are woefully slow. At Edwards Air Force Base in California, all structural parts are first checked out on a Mach 3 (2,280 m.p.h.) rocket sled to make sure that they will stand up under supersonic stresses. When North American's first F-100s developed tail flutter at speeds above Mach 1, engineers grounded all planes, experimented with a tail attached to a rocket sled. They drove the sled until the tail disintegrated, found where...