Word: stratojet
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After hissing impatiently behind the scenes for 17 months, the Air Force's hottest jet bomber-the experimental Boeing XB-47 Stratojet-whipped into public view last week like a kerosene-burning skeet target. It left Moses Lake, Wash., with a whoosh of its six jet engines, skyrocketed 2,289 miles to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (where it rolled down the runway with a fuchsia-colored parachute blossoming from its tail, to slow it down) in three hours and 46 minutes...
...next day the country had cause to blink again. A Northrop YB-49 eight-jet Flying Wing-a weird, batlike sky monster which is almost twice as heavy as the Stratojet-flew from Muroc, Calif, to Andrews Air Force Base in four hours and 25 minutes. Average for 2,259 miles: 511.2 miles an hour...