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...bigger, burlier version of Convair's supersonic F-102 jet fighter interceptor: like the F-102, it has a needle-nosed, coke-bottle fuselage with sharply swept delta wings and high, shark's-fin tail. The Hustler appears to be about 100 ft. long 60 ft. from wingtip to wingtip, roughly comparable to the current Air Force standby, Boeing's 600-m.p.h. B-47 medium bomber. But where the B-47 has six General Electric J47 (5,800 lbs. of thrust) engines, Convair's new B58 gets its supersonic hustle from only four General Electric...
...show near Paris, France's Defense Minister Rene Pleven and Britain's Minister of Supply Duncan Sandys, a son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill, had a brush with death when a Mystere IV jet fighter plane touched a wingtip to the ground, crashed and exploded before them, killing the pilot and sending flying wreckage over their heads...
...flights or triangular-course races. The committee decided on a 62-mile triangular route. Into his French-built Air 102 glider stepped a foreign contestant, France's youngish (25) Gerard Pierre. As he checked his instrument panel, ground crewmen raised his single-wheeled craft's grounded wingtip and clamped a tow cable to its fuselage. Nearly a half-mile downwind, a 115 h.p. winch roared up and began to reel in the long steel cable, slowly at first, finally at a screaming speed...
...April 22, 1944, like three streams of tracers arcing toward their targets, troops of MacArthur's 32nd, 24th and 41st Divisions landed at Aitape, Tanahmerah and Humboldt Bays. Their goal: three first-rate airstrips at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. Since the Japs had conveniently parked 340 planes, wingtip to wingtip, to be destroyed days before, mainly by General Kenney's Fifth Air Force, there was no air resistance. Bare of fighting forces, since the local Japanese commander expected to be attacked at Wewak, Hollandia proved to be a giveaway. Counterattacking Jap forces at Aitape were slaughtered, and MacArthur...
...host of air pressures all over the plane. They told the position of wheels, flaps and control surfaces. They rode herd on scores of temperatures inside and outside the engine and on the skin of the plane itself. They detected the first feeble flutters of a vibrating tail or wingtip. Every motion and tremor of the X3, as it rode high above the desert's Joshua trees, was written down continuously in lines of light in the trailer...