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D-558-1 Skystreak Landing
D-558-1 Skystreak in Flight
D-558-1 Skystreak with Wingtip Tanks
D-558-1 Skystreak Pilot
D-558-1 Skystreak in Flight Tests with Wingtip Tanks
D-558-1 Skystreak Painted White with Finned Wingtip Tanks
D-558-1 Skystreak Landing Gear Maintenance
D-558-1 Skystreak Pilot Gene May
D-558-1 Skystreak Pilot
D-558-1 Skystreak in Flight Tests with Wingtip Tanks
Pilots with D-558-1 Skystreak Outfitted with Wingtip Tanks
D-558-1 Skystreak #1 Flight Preparations at North Base
D-558-1 Skystreak Painted White and Outfitted with Wingtip Tanks
D-558-1 Skystreak with Finned Wingtip Tanks
D-558-1 Skystreak Pilots
D-558-1 Skystreak Pilot Gene May
D-558-1 Skystreak Attempts a World Speed Record
D-558-1 Skystreak #1 Test Flight Takeoff
D-558-1 Skystreak with Pilot Gene May
Pilots with the First D-558-1 Skystreak
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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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BI229475
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74-30-1
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