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D-558-1 Skystreak Ship Number 1in Assembly
D-558-1 Skystreak Ship Number 1in Assembly 
First D-558-1 Skystreak in Assembly
First D-558-1 Skystreak in Assembly 
D-558-1 Skystreak on Static Display
D-558-1 Skystreak on Static Display 
D-558-1 Skystreaks on Static Display
D-558-1 Skystreaks on Static Display 
D-558-1 Skystreaks on Static Display
D-558-1 Skystreaks on Static Display 
D-558-1 Skystreak 2 in Assembly
D-558-1 Skystreak 2 in Assembly 
D-558-1 Skystreaks, Ship #1 in Rear and Static Fuselage in Front
D-558-1 Skystreaks, Ship #1 in Rear and Static Fuselage in Front 
D-558-1 Skystreak Battery Compartment
D-558-1 Skystreak Battery Compartment 
D-558-1 Skystreak Ship #2 Jettisonable Nose Section
D-558-1 Skystreak Ship #2 Jettisonable Nose Section 
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 Skystreak Static Thrust Engine Test
D-558-1 Skystreak Static Thrust Engine Test 
D-558-1 Skystreak 2 Fuselage Sections Awaiting Final Body Join
D-558-1 Skystreak 2 Fuselage Sections Awaiting Final Body Join 
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 Skystreak on the Ground
D-558-1 Skystreak on the Ground 
Nose Landing Gear on D-558-1 Skystreak Ship Number One
Nose Landing Gear on D-558-1 Skystreak Ship Number One 
Second D-558-2 Skyrocket in Assembly
Second D-558-2 Skyrocket in Assembly 
D-558-2 Skyrocket on Tarmac
D-558-2 Skyrocket on Tarmac 
First D-558-2 Skyrocket Rollout with Flush Canopy
First D-558-2 Skyrocket Rollout with Flush Canopy 
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D-558-1 Skystreak #1 is Towed out of its Construction Hangar

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 BI229981 
Boeing ID es66650 
Type Image 
Size 2818px × 2223px   5MB 
License type RM 
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