Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...penultimate paragraph of the book is a model of restrained bitterness...
Dive Down. Other pilots have outstripped sound in other ways. North American Aviation Inc. stated flatly last week that its jet fighter XF-86 has often exceeded the speed of sound in power dives. A later, more powerful model, the F-86A, may be able to do the same in level flight...
...Russians, too, probably have supersonic airplanes. According to the London Daily Mail last week, the U.S.S.R. has developed a model with "a top speed approaching 760 m.p.h." The Daily Mail attributed Russian progress to 50 Rolls-Royce Nene jet engines which Britain sold them about a year...
...other major planemakers got from $40 million to $70 million apiece. Lockheed will build 585 more F80 Shooting Stars and trainers, plus 82 Navy patrol planes; Republic another 409 F-84 Thunderjets; Curtiss-Wright 88 F87 multiple-jet fighters and reconnaissance planes. Despite the crash of a Flying Wing model last fortnight, Northrop got an order for 30 Wings. Douglas and Grumman walked off with the lion's share of the Navy orders, around $50 million apiece for fighters and attack planes...
Though he has publicly shown just one handmade model, Preston Tucker has somehow managed to raise over $20,000,000 to finance production of his rear-engined Tucker '48 (TIME, July 7 et seq.). Last week, Promoter Tucker announced an ingenious scheme (which the SEC is carefully watching) to raise millions more. He wanted to sell radios, seat covers and other extra accessories to prospective car buyers for $270 a set. They could take delivery in six weeks or wait until their cars are delivered. In return for paying for the extras now, the purchasers would get a priority...