JET PROPULSION
DARTING about the sky over Whakatane yesterday, the jetpropelled Meteor ’plane, represented the symbol of aviation’s greatest advancement since the celebrated Wright Brothers launched the first mechanically driven machine in 1904. Fot the first time we have been privileged to see a power driven ’plane under perfect control without the aid of the famous ‘props’. Again war has provided the spur to man’s inventive genius and made all other means of air mastery look clumsy and obsolete. What will the latest method evolve in the next ten years- Already we learn that the same restless energy has been harnessed to cars and that experiments are now being applied to railway transport. Economic, simplified and comparatively clean the age of the jet-driven machine on lafid, sea and in the air, appears to be with us to stay, until in its turn it is overtaken by the mighty power of the harmessed atom, the prospective field of which is unlimited and unimaginable.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 58, 3 April 1946, Page 4
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162JET PROPULSION Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 58, 3 April 1946, Page 4
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