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Meanwhile the laboratories of the Engineering Division continued efforts to improve aircraft performance. By the end of 1943, there were well over 800 major and thousands of minor projects ongoing at Wright Field. Studying the technology from a captured German Heinkel He 178, the first jet-powered aircraft, engineers and scientists refined and tested the jet engine, culminating in the production of the Bell XP-59A Airacomet, the Army Air Forces' first jet.
Christopher L. Siebert, a native of St. Mary's, Ohio, is a graduate of Wright State University. While majoring in history there, he served a summer internship with the Aeronautical Systems Center History Office
Published in 1995 by the
History Office, Aeronautical Systems Center
Typono versions of it were never captured.
Studying the technology from a captured German Heinkel He 178, the first jet-powered aircraft, engineers and scientists refined and tested the jet engine, culminating in the production of the Bell XP-59A Airacomet, the Army Air Forces' first jet.
(*'''Description:''' Heinkel He 178 *'''Source:''' USAF This picture may have usage restrictions - PZL-104 {{PD-US}} Category:Experimental aircraft )
Christopher L. Siebert, a native of St. Mary's, Ohio, is a graduate of Wright State University. While majoring in history there, he served a summer internship with the Aeronautical Systems Center History Office
Published in 1995 by the
History Office, Aeronautical Systems Center