The Bell P-59 Airacomet aircraft first takes to the sky
On the 1st October, 1942, the Bell P-59 Airacomet, the first U.S. jet powered fighter aircraft, made it’s first test flight.
Albert Einstein was one of the scientists involved with the creation of the atomic bomb, invented under the code name “Manhattan Project”, which devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
On the 1st October, 1942, the Bell P-59 Airacomet, the first U.S. jet powered fighter aircraft, made it’s first test flight.


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