America’s First Jet: Inside the Surviving Bell P-59 Airacomets
Vintage Aviation News
JULY 21, 2025
During WWII, the United States would develop its first jet powered aircraft, with the goal that it would offer unmatched speed and usher a new era in aviation. Though powered by two General Electric J31 centrifugal-flow turbojet engines (based upon the American development of Sir Frank Whittle’s Power Jets W.1
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