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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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Dr. Gerald Wendt, a New York research chemist, proposes powering airplanes with atomic energy via a spool-fed wire of atomic explosive in jet engines, using compressed air to create a hot blast for propulsion, applicable to ships and locomotives too. (Los Angeles, Sept. 27.)
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27. - Dr. Gerald Wendt, New York research chemist and science writer, describes a method by which he says an airplane could be powered with atomic energy.
"Atomic fuel could be supplied in the form of a fine wire (of atomic explosive on a spool which can be fed into the nozzle of a jet engine," he said in addressing a regional conference of the committee for economic development yesterday.
"If it disintegrates at a controlled speed, all that is needed is a blast of compressed air over it." added Dr. Wendt. "Heated to several thousand degrees by atomic energy, this air would thus expand and roar out of the rear nozzle just as the gasoline flame does now.
"Once that is accomplished the same hot air blast could be blown on a turbine wheel to operate propellers of a plane or ship or to propel a locomotive or run any engine."
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Dr. Gerald Wendt describes a method to power airplanes with atomic energy by feeding a fine wire of atomic explosive into a jet engine nozzle, where it disintegrates at controlled speed with compressed air, heating the air to expand and propel the plane like current gasoline flames; the same blast could operate turbines for propellers or other engines.