Word: superjet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Douglas' Skyrocket had just been completed, but no pilot had been assigned to fly it. Bill's chief weakness in going after the job was that he had never flown a jet plane, and the rocket-pushed Skyrocket was a sort of superjet. He got checked out in an F-80, and in twelve hours of jet flying he convinced Douglas engineers that he was the man to entrust with the precious Skyrocket...
Father Connell added a practical point: "If these supposed rational beings should possess the immortality of body once enjoyed by Adam & Eve, it would be foolish for our superjet or rocket pilots to try to shoot them. They would be unkillable...