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...loudspeaker announced. "The military part of the display now starts." Suddenly, two silvery, swept-wing MIG-15 jets hurtled across the field headed directly at each other, skidded narrowly past, shot away close to the speed of sound. Five new types of swept-wing jet fighters flashed past, outracing the banshee wail of their engines. Column after column of MIG-15s paraded over the crowd, followed by 100 four-engine Russian copies of the U.S. B29, seaplanes, amphibians, a new twin-jet naval light bomber. Nine helicopters whirled up, rainbows of parachutists floated down from huge transports...
...Lavochkin). Twin-jet night fighter carrying pilot and radarman. Speed, about 570 m.p.h.; rate of climb, unknown; ceiling, unknown; range, about 2,200 miles; armament, two nose-mounted 32-mm. cannon plus two 12.7-mm. machine guns. Russia's No. 1 night fighter. Production limited, but being stepped...
Unable to get a toehold in conventional plane manufacture, M.A.C. made a virtue of necessity: it concentrated its research on jets. As a result, when the Navy decided to equip two carrier squadrons with jet fighters after World War II, McDonnell was ready with his twin-jet 500-m.p.h. Phantom. The Navy liked the Phantom so well that it ordered 235 of the plane's heavier, faster sister, the twin-jet Banshee, has since greatly stepped up its orders...
Since Moscow's May Day air show in 1947, the world has known that Russia has some very fast and possibly very good jet-propelled airplanes. Now, Jane's All the World's Aircraft, just off the presses, has told what it knows and surmises about Russian jets. With five drawings ("impressions") and one photograph,, Jane's gives some interesting descriptions, some of them fragmentary, of Red single-jet fighters, twin-jet attack bombers and fighters, four-jet bombers...