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...Salton Sea has another advantage: it is 236 ft. below sea level. Its air is denser, which slows an airplane a little, but this disadvantage is more than made up for by the increased thrust that a jet engine develops in denser...
...establish his record officially, Barnes made two passes in each direction (to average out the wind) over a three-kilometer course marked with smoke generators. He flew with his afterburner roaring (for maximum thrust) at an altitude of 90 ft. (to fly in the hottest air). The rules required him to fly level so that he could gain no speed out of diving, and his Sabre jet carried a simulated military load, representing rockets, radar, etc. During the tests, shortly after noon, the temperature near the ground reached 104°. In air as hot as this, the speed of sound...
...Small jet trainers such as the 250-m.p.h. Minijet, powered by a French-developed 300-lbs. thrust Turbomeca engine, and Fleuret and Magister, powered by two 880-lbs. thrust Turbomeca engines, with 450-m.p.h. maximum speeds...
FIRST fruit of the recently signed ten-year agreement between Westinghouse and Rolls-Royce (TIME, June 22) will probably be an announcement that Westinghouse will build the British Avon RA16 jet engine (9,000 lbs. thrust) which will power Britain's Comet IIIs, and possibly the new top-secret Conway, expected to have a thrust matching Pratt & Whitney's J-57, now the world's most powerful jet engine...
...been available only to the armed forces, which are installing it in an Air Force Douglas Globemaster and in two Navy Lockheed Super Constellations. The T-34 will develop 5,600 h.p., delivering 90% of it to a propeller and the remaining 10% to a jet thrust. Though turboprop planes are slower than pure jets, they are more efficient at take offs and low speeds, use far less fuel...