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Higher, Faster, Stronger: 1950s Experimental Aircraft

wired.com — The 1950s was the decade of the test pilot and the experimental aircraft, as aviation technology turned to the jet engine and pushed its limits in both speed and endurance. With the world divided in Cold War, the stakes were high. Jet aircraft dominated both U.S. and Soviet arsenals and the data returned by subsonic and supersonic test flights had

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  • CosmicJustice, on 07/24/2008, -0/+14The 1950's and 60's were a more technologically aggressive time than we live in now. Things happened fast. Kennedy said "let's go to the moon" and bam! 9 years later men were walking on the moon. They didn't sit around for decades doing environmental impact studies, or freeze the program every time there was an accident. That same mentality extended to everything. They built the entire US Interstate highway system in about 15 years. Today it takes 15 years to build one bridge. That was a tougher generation. They survived the Great Depression and WWII and they weren't taking ***** from lawyers and activists. They just rolled up their sleeves and got it done. Imagine what we could do starting with today's technology if we had that kind of "just get it done" attitude.
  • sharkd, on 07/24/2008, -3/+10Lame. Ubiquitous NASA photos with Wikipedia captions.
  • Tezdoll, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6That was one of the best comments i have read on digg, probably ever. I feel the same way you do, i wish people would stop running to their lawyers everytime someone sneezes. Just get it done, we could have already been to Mars if people were not such yuppies.
  • Threlly1, on 07/24/2008, -4/+10U.S. only, no Brit or Russian ?
    Buried
  • RogueMountie, on 07/24/2008, -1/+6What about the Avro Aero?
  • inactive, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4A very exciting time for Aviation!
  • s4g4n, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Here's a vid on the Hiller VZ-1 http://youtube.com/watch?v=GgNlumaVPDw
  • innovati, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3it wasn't until recently that modern planes surpassed the manoeuverability at high speed that the Avro Arrow had in the 1950's - it's too bad they scrapped it after they built them.

    I believe it was veiled threats from the US that led to our scrapping of the project, the US didn't want their neighbours to have more powerful planes than them and became as 'persuasive' as they could to get us to get rid of them.
  • Archcoder, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Do it faster makes us stronger.
  • zer0nix, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3we have to thank the germans, yes, but are you sure they were *all* nazis -or even most of them?

    i'm not trying to make an underhanded statement here; i honestly don't know.
  • MasterGrief, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1Pinko
  • Virgule, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1Its clear german scientists are the true pioneers or jet engines along many clever things like flying wing and leading edge slats.. Actual Nazis or not, I don't care. Machines and technologies are apolitical.

    By the way its the Avro Arrow, not Aero. I saw the remains of it at the Ottawa's Aviation Museum. Its kind of a BIG machine actually.
  • duke, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1It's an aerial Segway, LOL

    I bet that test pilot nearly crapped his jumpsuit the first time.
  • skyteria, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1Too addicted to Digg to get up and "do things."
  • Virgule, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1You surely meant the Avro Arrow?
  • inactive, on 07/24/2008, -3/+2and how much ***** tax money was used?
  • salinemist, on 07/24/2008, -2/+1Yuppies aren't the problem.
  • bigmac375, on 07/23/2008, -14/+11Buried. No more articles like these that reload every single time I click next image.
    That ***** is retarded.
  • sirlancelot88, on 07/24/2008, -10/+5NOTHING CAN STOP THE U.S. AIR FORCE!
  • Pramma, on 07/24/2008, -6/+0anyone else think this headline was a spin on the kanye/daft song at first?

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