Roaring Thunder: a Novel of the Jet Age

Authors: Boyne, Walter J.

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“She was amazingly inconsistent, behaving exactly like a wife in every way but the second-most fundamental: she would not get married. She stoutly refused to have her name on the mortgage papers, as if it were some sort of American stigma to be formally designated as a home owner. Vance had long since given up trying to understand her, knowing that he was lucky to have her and hoping to hold on to her for a few years more.Normally he wouldn’t have gone in, but the problems with the North America...n XP-86 were severe and the first two orders for P-86As were due to start being delivered to the eager young pilots in the Air Force during the summer. The biggest trouble was the General Electric J47 engine, which was not putting out its required thrust and was failing at faster intervals than specified. Then the three-thousand-pound-per-square-inch hydraulic system was giving trouble—the nose gear would just fold up on the ramp without any warning, and there were also problems with the aileron system.MoreLess Read More Read Less