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The Air Force did not reveal the top speed of the diving jets, but it must have exceeded the speed of sound (670 m.p.h. at high altitude) by a wide margin. Some air-wise observers privately calculated that the fighters might have been diving at 1,300 m.p.h. when they...
Pilots Newman and Collins needed no instruments, they said, to tell them at what point their diving fighters had passed the speed of sound. When that time came their cockpits grew quiet; the normal noise of flight abruptly died away. Down they dived in unearthly silence, leaving sound behind, until...
By midmorning two French battalions had disembarked and advanced up each side of a creek, combing the adjoining marshland in extended squad formation. They made no contact with the enemy. An air liaison officer had called out three fighter planes (P-63 Kingcobras) for reconnaissance and strafing. As they circled...
Other miners soon arrived-a couple, then thirty, then hundreds. By last week 1,300 men and 200 women were placermining on the Avequí, or in the Uriman, as the surrounding area is called. Diving deep to scoop up the sparkling sand, miners-male & female-wore few clothes or...
Dillingham, who had neither a coach nor an adequate diving board before he came here, arrived at his decision to drop football earlier this week. He has been working out in the pool three hours a day since the football season ended.