SOVIET JET PLANES FASTEST IN THE WORLD
(Rec. 10.10) NEW YORK, Oct. 2 A trade magazine “Aviation Week” has reported to-day that Russia has a new fighter plane, powered by a Rolls-Royce Nene engine that is faster than the jet planes now in operation in the United States Air Force jet squadron. The magazine, in publishing details "smuggled through the Iron Curtain,” said: “The No. 1 Soviet Yak fighter has a speed of 630 to 660 miles an hour. The fastest United States Air Force Jets now in operational service are the F 80 Shooting Star and the F 84 Thunderjet. Both are officially rated in the six hundred miles an hour class. The F 86 is the holder of the world speed record, 670 decimal 981 miles an hour. It appears to be much faster than the new jet, but it has not yet been assigned to regular service in the ‘United States Air Force squadrons. The magazine said that the new Russian fighter is the latest to enter service with tactical squadrons, and thus be compared with the F 84 from a time viewpoint. It has been operating with. Red Air Force squadrons for at least six months.
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Grey River Argus, 4 October 1948, Page 5
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