Word: rocket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hulking building with the pink neon sign-it might have been a sports arena, a warehouse or a hangar for tomorrow's giant rocket bomber-stood in the greyer part of grey Philadelphia. Along its long corridors and empty galleries, janitors toiled glumly amid drifts of paper cups, candy wrappers, newspapers and stale buns. As a band blurted out the first brassy music of the morning, the great main floor was only half filled...
...Kalitinsky sounded hopeful, as if he had items of progress which he wished he could crow about. But he warned his listeners not to "expect to see an atomic-powered rocket taking off for the moon this year or next...
Other facts & figures were seeping out to the public. According to good authority, the speed reached by the rocket plane was probably above 1,000 m.p.h. When its oxygen & alcohol fuel was exhausted (after about two minutes at full power), the pilot had to land with dead controls, at 160 m.p.h. Two XS-1s have been built, the first for the Air Force, the second for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Both have reached supersonic speed, and four more of them are on order...
...four others have done it: Major G. E. Lundquist and Captain James P. Fitzgerald of the Air Force, and NACA Test Pilots Herbert Hoover† and Howard Lilly, who was recently killed in a crash. These five had the strange experience of outflying the roar of their own rocket motors...
...Bell XS-1, with its rocket motor and two-minute fuel supply, is merely a flying laboratory, but the F-86A is a practical military aircraft (see BUSINESS). One of the secrets of its speed is probably its swept-back wings. When the plane itself is flying faster than sound, the air passes over the back-slanted wing at less than sonic speed, and so makes less trouble...