The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 98National Geographic Society, 1951 - Geography |
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As our jet plane smoothly gathered momentum , the hand moved up to 510 , to 520 . In a mere training plane we were traveling nearly a hundred miles an hour faster than any American fighting aircraft flew in action in World War II .
As our jet plane smoothly gathered momentum , the hand moved up to 510 , to 520 . In a mere training plane we were traveling nearly a hundred miles an hour faster than any American fighting aircraft flew in action in World War II .
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282 Plane Builders Compete in Designing Jet Fighters ; Here Are Two of the Newest Built as rivals in an Air Force design competition were McDonnell's XF - 88 Voodoo ( lower ) , North Amer- ican's YF - 93A ( upper ) , and Lockheed's XF ...
282 Plane Builders Compete in Designing Jet Fighters ; Here Are Two of the Newest Built as rivals in an Air Force design competition were McDonnell's XF - 88 Voodoo ( lower ) , North Amer- ican's YF - 93A ( upper ) , and Lockheed's XF ...
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288 plane so big and fast would otherwise need . Republic's radical new interceptor - fighter ... Sharply backward - slanting wings , found best for today's phenomenal speeds , mark the Nation's newest jet fighting and bombing planes .
288 plane so big and fast would otherwise need . Republic's radical new interceptor - fighter ... Sharply backward - slanting wings , found best for today's phenomenal speeds , mark the Nation's newest jet fighting and bombing planes .
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Contents
Copraship Voyage to Fijis Outlying Islands By Marjory C Thomas 121 | viii |
Delmarva Gift of the Sea By Catherine Bell Palmer With 21 illustrations in color | xix |
Largescale Western Europe Map First in New National Geographic Series Text accom | xxviii |
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