2000 MILES AN HOUR
U.S. AIRCRAFT DESIGNING PROJECT (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 31. An attempt to design an aeroplane that will fly 2000 miles an hour at a height of 40 to 60 miles is being undertaken in a secret project, according to a guarded announcement by the United States Air Forces to-day. The project, still in the designing stage, is the X 3 of the Douglas Aircraft Corporation. A design is sought for a plane capable of a speed three times that of sound, with a ceiling of 200,000 to 300,000 feet. "Douglas has made over 60 different 1 design studies, ranging from a stubby blunt-nosed model to a long, slender fuselage that comes to a long, slender point fore and aft,” said the Air Force announcement. "Ramjet, pulse-jet, and turbo-jet types of propulsive unit, both singly, and in combination, have been studied as possible propellants.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25589, 2 September 1948, Page 5
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