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D-558-1 Skystreak on the Ground
D-558-1 Skystreak on the Ground
D-558-1 Skystreak on the Ground
D-558-1 Skystreak on the Ground
D-558-1 Skystreaks on Static Display
D-558-1 Skystreaks on Static Display
D-558-1 Skystreak Ship #2 Jettisonable Nose Section
D-558-1 Skystreak on Static Display
Nose Landing Gear on D-558-1 Skystreak Ship Number One
D-558-1 Skystreak 2 in Assembly
D-558-1 Skystreak Battery Compartment
First D-558-1 Skystreak in Assembly
D-558-1 Skystreak #1 is Towed out of its Construction Hangar
D-558-1 Skystreak Static Thrust Engine Test
D-558-1 Skystreak Ship Number 1in Assembly
D-558-1 Skystreak 2 Fuselage Sections Awaiting Final Body Join
D-558-1 Skystreak Pilot
D-558-1 Skystreak Pilot
D-558-1 Skystreaks, Ship #1 in Rear and Static Fuselage in Front
D-558-1 Skystreak Pilots
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D-558-1 Skystreak on the Ground
The D-558-1 was developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company at its El Segundo (California) Division in the 1940s. The basic design philosophy was to build the smallest plane around the most powerful turbine engine available. To mitigate as much risk as possible, the team kept the design simple, using a conventional straight wing rather than the then new, and mostly unproven swept wing. The 5,000-lb.-thrust (22-kilonewton) Allison J35-A-11 engine filled the fuselage, leaving just enough room to house instrumentation and a pilot in a cramped cockpit. Because of the lack of knowledge about the survivability of a high-altitude, highspeed bailout, Douglas engineers designed a jettisonable nose section that could protect the pilot until a safe bailout speed was reached.
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Unique identifier
BI229469
Boeing ID
72-1-21
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2836px × 2151px 5MB
License type
RM
Keywords
1940s
airplanes
buildings
clear skies
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day
exteriors
ground shots
historic production status
jets
military
military livery
monoplanes
nobody
nose sections
photos
research/experimental
right front views
scanned from film negative
shadows
structural systems
sunshine
tarmac
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three-quarter length views
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