Airplanes of Future Will Travel 1,000 MPH (1939)

The January 29 , 1939 Hammond Times ( Hammond , IN ) ran this musical composition about the super - fast airplanes of the future . The article quickly devolve into a argument about how trusty air speed indicators are .

WASHINGTON , Jan. 28 — Airplanes adequate to of flying most 1,000 miles an hour – 300 miles an hour quicker than the speed of speech sound – will be develop “ within a generation , ” federal aviation engineers confidently predicted today .

This prediction , carrying with it terrific military and commercial-grade implications , was made while the same engineers were expressing “ some doubt ” that the planer flown in a test dive last Monday at Buffalo , N.Y. , actually reach the reported speeding of 575 miles an hour .

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A spokesman for the national advisory committee for aeronautics , which conducts authorities airmanship research at its vast Langley Field , Va. , laboratories , said that while NACA examination thus far have not develop speeds on gather models of above 500 mile an hour , there is no demonstrable reason to conceive that a modern airplane can not light upon a 575 - land mile - an - hour clip .

“ The footing on which we entertain doubt regarding the 575 - mile - an - minute speed at Buffalo is just this : The air speed indicator in the sheet showed 575 miles an minute , but it has been established that zephyr swiftness indicators can not be trusted too far , ” he explicate . “ so as to have been accurate , the indicator in the plane take flight at Buffalo should have been adjusted at different levels on the way down during the honkytonk . That , of course , was insufferable . ”

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