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...FIRST SKYRAY off Douglas Aircraft Co.'s production line has been handed over to the Navy. The bat-winged jet interceptor (F4D), whose experimental prototype flew 753 m.p.h., is the Navy's first truly supersonic combat plane...
...engine equipped with an afterburner, the engine that pushed the F-100 Super Sabre (TIME, Oct. 26) to an official supersonic speed record (755 m.p.h.) for military planes. The husky 20-ft. package of power is also being installed in Douglas' bat-winged fighter, the F4D Skyray, Convair's delta-winged F-102, Boeing's B-52 bomber, to give them an extra kick...
General Motors this week rolled out the most Buck Rogersish automobile ever to come out of Detroit, its experimental XP-21 Firebird (see cut). The plastic-bodied Firebird closely resembles Douglas' supersonic F4D Skyray, with its sweptback delta wings (for stability), its vertical tail fin, and plastic bubble enclosing the driver's seat. Behind the driver's seat, the Firebird has a gas turbine engine, the first in a U.S. car. The small, kerosene-burning engine drives a turbine that transmits power directly to the wheels...
PRATT & Whitney's J57 jet, most powerful engine in production, will go into two more U.S. military planes. The engine, already slated to power three new Air Force fighters and the B-52 bomber, will also be used in the Navy's Douglas F4D "Skyray" fighter and Douglas A3D twin-engined light bomber...
...aircraft manufacturers recaptured the world's speed record when a Douglas F4D jet Skyray averaged 753.4 m.p.h. over California's Salton Sea last week, cracking an eight-day-old record of 737.3 m.p.h., set by a British pilot in a Vickers Supermarine Swift...