America's first jet flight

http://videosift.com/video/Americas-First-Jet-Flight-October-1942

Pretty cool stuff and definitely GRM style

Pretty cool, but not quite as "American" as you might think... they were using a British engine...

Planes of Fame in Chino Ca. is restoring one to fly...

http://www.planesoffame.org/index.php?page=restoration-projects

would have loved to be there..

I want an open cockpit jet fighter!

aircooled wrote: Pretty cool, but not quite as "American" as you might think... they were using a British engine...

They were using a GE IA engine, which was a COPY of the British Whipple, so technically it was American. Kind of. Sorta.

But look what we came up with by 1958: the J-58. Heart of the Blackbird.

Very cool when seen in flight and the afterburners kicked in.