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Jet Propulsion Advances Spur Wartime Aircraft Plans
The War Department highlights a jet propelled robot bomb in large scale production and notes rapid progress in jet and rocket motors over the past two years. Col Don J. Keirn and RAF’s Frank Whittle links are cited with GE and Bell Aircraft developing the XP 59 later P 59A. Skyways commissions aviation artists to envision jet craft five to ten years ahead.
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War Department
America
Col
Don J. Keirn
England
RAF
Frank Whittle
Whittle
General Electric
Bell Aircraft
Robert M. Stanley
Bell
Skyways
Republic
Thunderbolt