Title: USS Wake Island Description: FR-1 Fireball fighter plane manufactured by Ryan Aero with a WAC R-1820-72W engine and a GE-1-16 jet engine (1300 hp); top speed: 426 mph; length: 32'4" span: 40'; gross weight: 9958 lbs; first delivered on June 25, 1944 to the U.S. Navy, but only 69 were delivered by November 1945 and none saw action in World War II; the plane was accident-prone, combing propeller-driven power and jet propulsion, the Fireball being the first jet-propelled aircraft to land on a carrier, that of USS Wake Island (CVE-65) on November 6, 1945;" Category: World War II Keywords: aircraft, airplanes, aviation, aviators, pilots, planes, U.S. jet fighter planes, U.S. Navy Orientation: Panorama Dimensions: 2010 x 970 (1.95 MPixels) (2.07) Print Size: 17.0 x 8.2 cm; 6.7 x 3.2 inches File Size: 5.59 MB (5,857,086 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010885 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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