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Buy This 5,200-Pound Jet Engine For Just $4,000
and defunct yet historic jet engines is apparently one of them. This J57-P55 variant that's currently up for auction at no reserve, features a two-spool axial flow turbojet engine that was ...
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Lockheed’s L-133 Starjet was Almost the World’s First Fighter Jet
The Lockheed L-133 Starjet was a prime example of a paradoxical “successful failure.” As I asserted in a recent article for The National Interest, of all the great geniuses in the history of military ...
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The World's First Fighter Jet: A Look At The Messerschmitt Me 262
Me 262 was the first mass-produced jet fighter but faced issues ... on its own power on March 30th, 1941. But engine troubles with the six-stage axial-flow BMW P 3302 would discount the He 280 ...