NEW JET ENGINE DEVELOPED FOR USE IN U.S. PROPELLER-LESS FIGHTER PLANES.

NEW JET ENGINE DEVELOPED FOR USE IN U.S. PROPELLER-LESS FIGHTER PLANES. This view of the new jet engine produced for U.S. Army planes by the General Electric Company in the eastern state of New York, shows the turbine, which revolves more than 10,000 times a minute in heat more intense than 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit (815 degrees Centigrade). The engine's jet exhaust has been removed to expose the turbine. A circle of combustion chambers, in which kerosene burns fiercely in compressed air, forms the ring of metal tubes around the central power section. The engines are used in the Army P-59A propellerless fighter plane.