Into the Great Wide Open: Bill Craigie took off in his XP-59A Airacomet from Muroc Lake 70 years ago. He climbed to 6,000 feet during the first official jet flight in U.S. history. The Airacomet was powered by two GE jet engines – the first jet engines made in America.

Seventy years ago, on October 2, 1942, the jet age took off in America, powered by a pair of GE jet engines. Since then, 150,000 GE jet engines have flown the coop.

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