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Teaser. At Fort Sam Houston, Texas, curious personnel officers had a talk with WAC Pfc. Gloria Yeager, who had listed her civilian occupation as "stripper," learned that she used to strip tobacco leaves in a cigarette factory...
According to skyside gossip, two new experimental rocket planes are being built for the Air Force. One is the Bell X2, an improvement on the X1, in which Test Pilot Chuck Yeager first flew faster than sound (TIME, April 18, 1949). The X2, rumored for a long time, may be ready for 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...
Less than three years ago, with its famed test pilot Captain Charles E. Yeager at the controls, the Air Force's Bell X-1 rocket plane became the first aircraft to fly faster than sound (TIME, June 21, 1948). Last week "Chuck" Yeager, piloting a B-29 with the little X-1 attached to its underside, landed in Washington. The X-1 was being turned over to the Smithsonian Institution, to be added to its collection of more than 100 historic planes.* Not much sentiment was wasted on the occasion: the X-1 was already obsolete...
...story was assigned to TIME'S Science editor, Jonathan Norton Leonard. Like his recent cover stories on Astronomer Edwin Hubble (TIME, Feb. 9, 1948) and Jet Pilot Charles Yeager (TIME, April 18), this one meant that he had to immerse himself quickly in a serious, highly technical...
There is something that is quite puzzling to me . . . after reading about Test Pilot Yeager [TIME, April 18], Suppose a plane was traveling at the speed of a bullet, and a gun located in the plane and facing the direction of travel was fired, what would happen to the bullet? Would it stay in the gun, come back, or go forward at twice its normal speed...