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. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1943.
FASTER THAN SOUND
It was an almost incredible feat which Lieutenant
Colonel Cass H. Hough, technical director of the Eighth
Fighter Command of the United States Army Air
Forces,, performed on two occasions with new Ameri
can fighter planes. Be travelled 780 miles an hour;
faster than sound. We used to think, a generation ago,
that a speed of a mile a minute was terrific. The Army
test pilot covered space at the rate of 13 miles a min
ute.
Lieutenant Colonel Hough did it first last fall in
the P-38 Lightning, and repeated the performance last
winter in a Thunderbolt—two very dissimilar types of
new American fighters. It was a graphic indication of
the excellence of modern American war craft.
As the speed of sound is reached, the atmosphere
begins to take on new characteristics of solidity. Plane
speed can be increased only through an almost geo
metric increase in motive horsepower. The final 50
or 100 miles an hour of plane speed can be eked out
only through a tremendous increase in engine capacity.
Of course, Lieutenant Colonel Hough did not de
pend upon his engines to attain a speed of a thousand
feet a second. Not yet are we building a plane ca
pable of flight at a speed even approaching 780 miles
an hour, although the Lightning and Thunderbolt have
top speeds of approximately 400 miles an hour. Hough’s
speed was attained in a vertical or near vertical dive,
begun eight miles up, and utilizing to the fullest the
pull of gravity in a five-mile plummet descent.
In such a dive, as the plane enters the denser atmos
phere near the earth’s surface, the propellor is more
of a hindrance than a help. Incapable of pulling the
ship downward at such a speed, it onlv contributes to
the air resistance which limits the velocity of fall.
Naturally, it takes a superlatively good ship to dive
at 780 miles an hour. It has to have superb aerodyna
mic design to fall so fast, and outstanding mechanical
characteristics to be able to withstand the vibration_o{
such terrific speed and the pull of centrifugal force
when the pilot attempts to come out of the dive. But
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Alaska Star Airlines
Norman Weaver went to Golo
vin, Moses Point and Unalakleet
with Bill Murray and Tom Seg
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trip to Golovin with Steve AgTo
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