"Jet" vs "prop": 500 mile an hour speed will change air combat tactics
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"Jet" vs "prop": 500 mile an hour speed will change air combat tactics
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"Jet" vs "prop": 500 mile an hour speed will change air combat tactics
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THE entry of the jet-propelled plane
into aerial combat on both sides
might very well revolutionize sky
fighting. The speed of the new craft is
now said to be around 500 m.p.h., and
already there is talk of 700 m.p.h.
This tremendous increase of speed,
coupled with the jet plane's extraordi-
nary rate of climb, would appear to
give it a vast advantage over the pro-
peller-driven ship. However, the jet
has a definite weakness—lack of ma-
neuverability.
The extreme high speed of the jet
plane prevents it from making a turn
in anything like the short distance
possible to the average fighter. The
pilot, if flying at top speed when con-
fronted by a foe, must either go into
a long glide or zoom suddenly.
These sketches, drawn for the Illus-
trated London News by G. H. Davis,
show how the jet plane. attacks the
prop plane, and how it, in turn, may
be attacked.
What will happen when jet meets
jet in the skies is problematical. Pos-
sibly the aerial dogfight will revert
from a horizontal to a vertical plane.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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G. H. Davis (illustrator)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1945-02
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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74-75
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Public domain
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Sami Akbiyik
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
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Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core)
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London
Popular Science Monthly, v. 146. n. 2. 1945
