TO EXCEED SPEED OF SOUND
U.S. AIRCRAFT BEING DEVELOPED GERMANS WERE WORKING ON ATHODYD ENGINE (Rec. 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 14. An aircraft designed to exceed the speed of sound is being developed in California, according to the Associated Press, although the Navy Department only admits that an aircraft with instruments .for recording aerodynamic froces at" " previously -unattained horizontal speeds " is being built. The • Associated Press reports that German documents reaching the army air force's experimental station at Wright Field reveal that the Germans were • working on an athodyd engine, which depends on the " ram " effect of its speed to compress the air in the combustion chamber. . The athodyd engine is believed capable of giving speeds up to 3,000 miles an hour. Another German aircraft still in the design stage was expected to fly 1,700 miles an hour at 100,000 feet.
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Evening Star, Issue 25768, 15 April 1946, Page 5
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141TO EXCEED SPEED OF SOUND Evening Star, Issue 25768, 15 April 1946, Page 5
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