Jet Fighters Fail At High Altitudes
W ASH1N GTON, Jul.v 30. A top pecret report on ffthe failure" of Britain 's jet fighters again s_t the obsolete American B29 bomlievs m the joint air manoeuvres over the British rsles earlier this summer, is m the hands of the IJnited States Air Force, reports the New York Herald-Tribune. Enough of the report has leaked out, says the Tribune, to indicate that for all practieal purposes, Britain s latest type of jets failed comnletely when the 8uperfortresses came in at an altitude of 35,000 feet to test the island 's defenees. American and British correspondents who rode in the Fortresses during the operation, reported that the bombeis experienced onlv "feeble and sluggish'' attacks at 35,000 feet and the jets were barely able to exceed the liombers"' speed in u straightv/av purBuit. The Tribune says that,, accordmg to reports,. the B29 's had-tp conduct .tkeir attacks on British objectives well below the 30,000 feet level in order to ' ' keep the exercises from being a complete bust. ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 August 1949, Page 5
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173Jet Fighters Fail At High Altitudes Chronicle (Levin), 1 August 1949, Page 5
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