SUPERSONIC PLANE
CONSTRUCTION IN U.S. (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 forces at “previously unattained horizontal speeds,” is being built. The Associated Press reports that German documents which have reached (he Army Air Force’s experimental station at Wrighttleld reveal that the Germans were working on an athodyd engine which depends on the “ram” effect of its speed to compress air in the combustion chamber. The athodyd engine is believed to be capable of giving speeds up to 3000 miles an hour. Another German aircraft, still in the design stage, was expected to fly 1700 miles an hour at 100,000 ft.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21997, 15 April 1946, Page 3
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