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Whistling at 140 m.p.h. down a runway at the U.S. Naval Air Test Center on Maryland's Patuxent River, a Grumman F9F-8T fighter-trainer barely had its nose wheel off the concrete when a short, stocky R.A.F. officer riding in the seat behind the pilot got the signal to bail out. Flying Officer Sidney Hughes reached above his head and yanked a handle. The pull snapped down a black curtain (to protect his face from wind blast) and fired three cartridges beneath his seat. Half a second after Hughes was catapulted straight out of the plane, another cartridge...
TURBOPROP PLANES for businessmen will be built by Grumman Aircraft, which is resuming commercial plane output for first time since 1950. New twelve-passenger plane, powered by two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops, will have top speed of 370 m.p.h. and range of 2,200 miles. Production starts next...
...company has big commercial orders for its 3,700-h.p. Wright Turbo Compound piston engine, but was slow to push into jets, has only one big seller in the relatively low-powered (about 7,000-lb. thrust) J65 engine for subsonic Navy and Air Force fighters and Grumman's lightweight supersonic F11 F-1 Tiger...
Supersonic speed has brought a new hazard for jet-plane pilots: shooting themselves down with their own gunfire. Last week the Navy told how Test Pilot Tom Attridge was trying out the 20-mm. guns of a Grumman F11F-i fighter off Long Island. He put the airplane into a dive, speeded up to 880 m.p.h. and fired a four-second burst (about 70 rounds). Then he went into a steeper dive and fired another burst. As the last bullets left his guns, something struck and shattered his windshield. Pilot Attridge thought he had run down a bird. He headed...
...addition, the industry currently has 14 engines under license for foreign manufacture. The U.S. alone makes eight different types of British power plants, has turned out 15,000 British-licensed engines for 13 types of American planes since World War II. e.g., North American's FJ-4 Fury, Grumman's F11F-1 Tiger, Republic's F-84F Thunderstreak...