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With World War 2 underway in 1939, the United States Army Air Corps began fielding reports from Germany and Britain about a major advancement in aviation technology. The German Heinkel He 178 and the British Gloster E.28/39 were demonstrating that QUOTE “aircraft flying without propellers” could be the future of air combat. In response, the United States launched its own topsecret fighter program hidden behind the development of the rearpropellerdriven Bell XP52 and XP59 prototypes. The resulting Bell59 Airacomet would be the very first American fighter jet...