Word: turbojet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Handicap. But the Skyrocket had started its career with a handicap. Unlike the X-1, it was designed to take off and climb with its own power. A turbojet engine was crammed into the narrow needle-nosed fuselage. There were rocket motors too, for speed runs, but they gulped fuel at a ton a minute from tanks cut down to accommodate the powerful turbojet and its accessories. Rocket thrust was never available to the pilot long enough for the plane to approach top speed...
Late in 1949 the Navy decided that its research plane had loafed long enough, and had collected all the data it could at the lower limits of supersonic flight. Then the Skyrocket went back to the shop. Its turbojet was removed, the air intakes (not needed for rocket propulsion) were covered over, and the 40-ft. fuselage was fitted with extra tanks that doubled its capacity for the volatile rocket fuels...
...testing this year. Current guesses give it a top speed of 2,500 m.p.h., at an altitude of 200,000 ft. (38 miles). Even more radical is the X3, which Douglas is said to be developing. Powered with a ramjet and a rocket motor as well as a conventional turbojet engine, it is expected to have a ceiling of 300,000 ft. (57 miles...
Unlike the radical swept-wing design of modern U.S. jet jobs-fighters and bombers-the Canberra is basically a handsomely cleaned-up version of traditional designs, with a wing that looks fairly conventional to the man on the ground. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engines, it is rated at a top speed above 600 m.p.h., can be fitted with wingtip tanks to extend its range. The Canberra was designed as a high-altitude radar bomber, can also perform all normal fighter maneuvers, and has shown possibilities as a low-level ground support plane. Said Pilot Callard: "A most...
...meet these Air Force requirements Boeing will offer its XB-52, believed to look much like its six-jet B-47 medium bomber, now in production. The XB-52 has wings swept back at a 35° angle, and eight turbojet engines...