The Gloster Meteor: A Closer Look At Britain's 1st Jet Fighter
This article investigates Britain's first jet fighter. Also, a member of an RAF unit that worked on the Meteor tells about a ...
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80 Years From Invention, China Is Struggling With Jet Engines
The jet engine has a long and storied history ... 1939. By the end of World War II, a smattering of military jet aircraft had entered service, and the propeller was on the way out as far as ...
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What a Pulse-Jet-Engine Vehicle Builder Can Teach Us About Motoring Passion
the first cruise missile—that Hitler used to terrorize the British during World War II. Maddox was transfixed by this flying bomb, which was powered by a pulse-jet engine. No one had been ...
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P-80 Shooting Star: America’s First True Fighter Jet
As one would expect, the transition to jet-powered fighters was fraught with danger—and prototype P-80 test flights resulted ...
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P-51 Mustang: The Most Iconic American Fighter In History?
During World War II, the Mustang destroyed 4,950 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air—the most of any U.S. fighter in the European Theater.