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Subsonic Express. At Muroc (Calif.) Air Force Base, Northrop Aircraft, Inc. ran first flight tests on an odd-looking plane that seemed to have swallowed its tail. Called the X-4, it is a batshaped little (20 ft. long) craft with two jet engines and broad, backswept wings (see cut). No entry in the supersonic sweepstakes, the X-4 was designed in the belief that subsonic speeds will still be the practical concern of aviation for many years. It will be used for research at speeds of about 650 m.p.h...
...Force's F-86 jet fighter set a new world's record for level flight. Skimming the salt flats of California's Muroc Lake, Major Richard L. Johnson flew the North American plane with swept-back wings at an average of 670.981 m.p.h. in four passes, matching the record he had made unofficially in Cleveland two weeks earlier (TIME, Sept...
...confirmed these essential facts, The XS-1, a small, thin-winged, rocket-propelled airplane, built by Buffalo's Bell Aircraft Corp., had been flown through the barrier several times in recent weeks at the closely guarded test center at Muroc, Calif. The chief test pilot was 24-year-old Air Force Captain Charles Yaeger, World War II fighter pilot. The other pilots were Howard Lilly and Herbert Hoover, civilian flyers of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The airmen had experienced almost none of the difficulties predicted by scientists to be lying in the transonic area in which other...
...speed record, inching closer to the critical speed of sound, moved up a double notch. At Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., the Navy's Douglas Skystreak (0-558), piloted by Commander Turner F. Caldwell, zipped four times over a three-kilometer course at the average speed of 640.7 m.p.h. This was 16.9 m.p.h. faster than the record set (on June 19) by Lockheed's P-80R. Then last week, five days later, Marine Major Marion Carl (credited with 18 Japanese planes) took the Skystreak up again. Flying at times only 25 feet above the desert, he averaged 650.6 m.p.h...
...airplane speed record returned to the U.S. last week after almost ten years in Europe. Veteran Army Test Pilot Colonel Albert Boyd, 40, made four three-kilometer (1.86 mi.) runs, with and against a light breeze, in a jet-propelled Lockheed P-80R over Muroc Dry Lake, Calif. His average speed: 623.8 m.p.h., only 7.8 m.p.h. faster than Britain's record, hung...