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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...
...another Bell-built rocket plane with sweptback, stainless steel wings and tail, and a Monel metal body. It is designed to reach 2,250 m.p.h...
...dominate the skies. As Rentschler and every other airman knows: "The engine is the key to air supremacy." To help the U.S. gain air supremacy, the armed forces are already rushing plans for production of new fighters and big intercontinental bombers-Boeing's giant B-52 and a sweptback-wing version of Convair's B-36-to use the new jet's fuel economy and power...
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