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...Paleolithic man. 61. Almost 50 years to the day after the Wright Brothers twirled their first pusher propeller, Major Charles E. Yeager flew faster than any previous pilot or plane. His speed: 1. 600 miles per hour...
...blows air through the hollow blades of the rotor. When it reaches the tips, the air makes fuel burn in small "pressure jets." Their thrust spins the rotor and lifts the ship off the ground. Then air and fuel are cut off, and the rotor idles freely while a pusher propeller flies the convertiplane like an ordinary airplane...
High above Muroc, Calif, last week, almost 50 years to the day since the Wright Brothers twirled their first pusher propeller, the Air Force's Major Charles E. ("Chuck") Yeager, 30, attained the highest known speed ever to be reached by pilot and plane. His rocket-powered aircraft (released from a B-29 bomber at 30,000 ft. for the run): the experimental Bell XIA, a new relative of the XI, with which Chuck Yeager first cracked the sound barrier in level flight (TIME, April 18, 1949). His speed: more than 1,600 m.p.h., 2½ times the speed...
Sergeant Hubert M. Sluss of Bristol, Va., a lean, thrice-wounded World War II paratrooper, was "pusher" for a stick of 20 paratroopers on the left side of the plane. He was last in line, and it was his duty to quarterback the jump. Luckily, all the jumpers in the plane had already "stood up and hooked up" (i.e., fastened their parachutes to the static lines in the plane). When Sluss heard the windshield break with a sound "like two cars hitting," he wasted no time. Shouting, pushing, struggling uphill as the bucking, lurching plane headed down...
...excuse this glaring inconsistency by pointing out that Russian chess players hardly constitute a menace to the nation, and such specious use of the "national interest" loophole is harmless. While true, this reasoning hardly justifies the contrast, for under the Act's provisions men as safe as any pawn-pusher and many times more worthy are refused entry by the score...