Word: nene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This was the beginning of the descent into the abyss," said the Frankfurter Nene Presse in a special issue commemorating September1, 1939. "We and not Hitler alone-that is the nagging part of our memories." declared the Deutsche Zeitung. "Before history we are responsible, too, because Hitler came to power by the parliamentary route and received overwhelming majorities in all the plebiscites, was met everywhere with frenetic cheers." Wrote the weekly Die Zeit: "We want to say it clearly: Germany has sinned against Poland...
...SECRET FLYING MACHINE, which Britain's Minister of Supply says may be as revolutionary as the jet engine, was successfully tested in England. The device is simply a 10-ft.-by-20-ft. platform, with two Rolls-Royce Nene engines, fuel tanks, and a bucket seat mounted on it. There are no wings, fuselage or rudder. Pilot sits over the engine and flies the platform by directing the jet blasts downward...
Last week the MIG was under study at the U.S. Air Force's experimental base in Dayton. First discovery: the engine, which almost everyone had feared was a redoubtable fruit of Russian-plus-German technology, was an unmodified, British-made Rolls-Royce Nene. Britain had shipped perhaps 100 jet engines to Russia before the trade was stopped in January...
...Nenes & Rooster Tails. After the war, Russia's master of tactical air power and air force chief, Alexander Novikov, was fired and jailed. Just about that time, Russia turned more attention to heavy bombers, even separated its air force from ground command (it has since been returned to army control). The new air boss was a shining party light, 46-year-old Marshal Konstantin Vershinin, Hero of the Soviet Union, and one of the top World War II commanders. His orders were to get going on jets. Russia's designers had proved that they could build conventional planes...
...mobilization only if "war was inevitable"-and he did not think that was the case, although he was pessimistic. He threw a scare into the Senators by declaring that the Russian MIG-15 (powered, like the Navy's Panther and other fighter craft, with a redesigned Rolls-Royce Nene engine) is "superior to any jet engine that we have today" in "speed and climb and operations at altitude...