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...holdings to 95%. Since then, by pouring in funds for research and development, General Tire has helped Aerojet land contracts for a family of 15 rocket engines. At. its two California plants, Aerojet makes engines for the Titan ICBM, each of which produces an estimated 250,000 Ibs. of thrust (v. some 20,000 Ibs. for the biggest conventional jet), also has contracts for a series of smaller engines ranging from the Navy's 1,500-mile submarine-launched Polaris missile to the Army's Nike Ajax antiaircraft rocket...
...Reaction Motors, which has concentrated heavily on research since its founding in 1941, is just getting into mass production. Reaction made the first 350-lb. thrust engine for World War II's experimental Gorgon flying bomb, built the liquid fuel engines for Bell's X-1 series rocket planes. Currently, Reaction is at work on a rocket booster for a U.S. Air Force plane, has a contract to produce rockets with 500,000 Ibs. of thrust for supersonic Air Force test sleds. Another project: the rocket engine for North American's piloted X-15 rocket plane, which...
Besides showing pictures of the Vertijet's performance, Ryan told a few details about its construction. During vertical hovering, when no airstream is passing over the control surfaces, the X-13 is controlled by deflecting the exhaust of the jet engine and by varying its thrust by throttle adjustments. The pilot does not have to take off vertically while sitting on the back of his neck with his feet in the air. His seat pivots enough to keep him in a reasonable sitting position. Ryan officials say that the X-13 has proved remarkably easy to fly. Pilot Girard...
...With vengeance in his eye and blood bespattering his "suit of lights," he faced his second bull. Taking quick control, he played the bull with daring passes that brought the crowd to its feet chanting oles. Then, in a sudden hush, he killed the bull cleanly with a single thrust. As the bull dropped to its knees, the crowd shouted approval. Hurriedly consulting, the judges ruled that Velazquez should receive a fair trophy...
WORLD'S FASTEST PLANE, rocket-propelled X-15, with potential speed of 3,500 to 4,000 m.p.h., is being built at North American Aviation's Los Angeles plant. For it New Jersey's Reaction Motors is developing rocket engine with greater thrust than that of Bell X-2 plane that flew to 126,000 ft. and 1,900 m.p.h...