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...previous official record, also held by a Sabre jet, was 699.9 m.p.h. To turn the trick, Lieut. Colonel William Barnes, 32, flew his Sabre jet at the most favorable spot: the hot desert that surrounds the Salton Sea in Southern California. A Sabre jet is built to fly at mach .91, i.e., 91% of the speed of sound. Above this speed, it runs into a sharp increase of air resistance that is called "compressibility drag rise." Since sound moves faster at high temperature, the best place to try for speed is a hot desert...
...buzzed the field at 650 m.p.h. not more than 15 feet off the ground. A tiny two-seater, the Minijet, scooted up & down at 200 m.p.h. Loafing about the field were the Trident, an experimental, needle-nosed plane that the French hope will reach speeds up to Mach 1.6 (1,156 m.p.h. at sea level), and the triple-purpose Vautour (ground-support fighter, all-weather interceptor, light bomber), with expected speeds of 650-plus m.p.h...
...could tell them how to make a supersonic airplane fly safely at slow speeds, i.e., below 650 m.p.h. At Mach 2, very small wings will give sufficient lift. If they are made bigger, to give lift at low speed, they stir up too much drag. So the tiny wings of the X3, designed for efficiency and minimum drag at very high speed, make the ship unstable and cranky when it is flying below the speed of sound. This is one reason why Bill Bridgeman quietly denounced the X-3 as a "nasty little beast." When he does...
Also in the issue of Mach 20 below the statement: "You can set these things down as near certainties," they remarked, "Truce as an idea, is dead...
...Army took the lead for good as Dale Ward pinned Len Miller at 157. In the next mach Army's Ted Den decisioned veteran Chick Chandler, the Crimson's 167-pounder. Ken Culbert gave ex-Cadet football captain Al Paulikas a fine contest until he was pinned by the Eastern College 177-pound champion. George Lodge won the last match of the day over Crimson heavy George Bates...