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Within the limits of military security (the enemy has had no opportunity to capture a P-80), estimates have been made of some of the features of the performance of the newest U.S. craft in the air. So fast is the P-80 that nothing that flies (including the tailless Messerschmitt 163 rocket interceptor) "can match its speed of "considerably more than 600 m.p.h." Its ceiling is well above the 40,000 feet at which propeller-driven planes can operate with efficiency, and it has a pressurized cabin...
Protocol called for tails, black vests and white ties. But the Embassy staff-21 strong-were tailless, so there was a compromise on dark suits. Pat Hurley wore his beribboned, bemedaled, two-star uniform. At 9 a.m. the staff ran through a dress rehearsal. By n o'clock all hands had gathered at the curly-roofed headquarters building of Chiang's Government...
Tuxedo. A tailless dinner coat, first worn by a daring young man (Griswold Lorillard) at a formal ball at fashionable Tuxedo Park, N.Y., in the 1880s...
...dream ship is an entirely new type of airplane: a tailless, two-engined flying wing. The idea itself is not new. Long have designers known that the tail of an airplane, necessary as it always has been for rudders, elevators, leverage, is a drag on a plane's speed. So Jack Northrop started on a new design 18 years...
Crouched on California's Muroc Dry Lake in May 1940 for its first flight, the flying wing, like most airplanes on the ground, looked terrible. Tailless as a Manx cat, it squatted on a three-wheeled undercarriage. Its wing tips (span 38 feet) drooped forlornly. Two pusher propellers poked out of its rump like something an insane designer had tacked on as an afterthought. From its blunt beak thrust a long rod carrying the head of its airspeed indicator. It looked like a ruptured, weather-racked duck, too fatigued to tuck in its wings...