Keeping It On Wing, Safer and Longer
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In the early days of the jet age, turbine engines delivered revolutionary power but were famously unreliable. During the test program for the Bell P-59 Airacomet, America's first jet fighter, in the early 1940s, it was not uncommon for ground crews to replace one or both engines between each flight...
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