SPEEDY AIRCRAFT
NEW PLANE DESIGNED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, January JG. Mr John Stack, an aeronautical engineer, announces that'he has designed a craft capable of a speed of 544 miles an hour, 121 miles faster than the world’s record. With the present type of high-powered engine, he said, the wind resistance would be reduced to a minimum. The landing gear would bo retractable or perhaps be removed. A catapult device would be used to get aloft. The fuselage was shaped for landing, preferably on water.
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Evening Star, Issue 21622, 18 January 1934, Page 9
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86SPEEDY AIRCRAFT Evening Star, Issue 21622, 18 January 1934, Page 9
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