Word: allison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engine in the U.S. "medium-altitude fighters" is what keeps them down. This engine is General Motors' liquid-cooled Allison- a power plant which has been the subject and victim of more controversy than any other single element in the U.S. fighter picture. According to combat pilots recently back from fighting fronts, the Allison now going into U.S. Army fighters is reliable, efficient, easy to maintain, a good engine within its limits. Its main limit is that it does not deliver enough power above medium altitudes...
...Lure. For several days before the enemy turned on Hengyang, Major Tex Hill, formerly of the A.V.G., and Major John Allison of Gainesville, Fla., had launched pin-pricking attacks on Japanese outposts and circled their fields, daring them to come out and fight. Finally they did. These tactics and others, all part of a secret and tricky plan of their commander, Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault, fighting under resourceful Lieutenant General "Uncle Joe" Stilwell, finally led the Jap to get on with his bombing...
...down moon from them," said Fighter Allison, "and they made a 180-degree turn away from me. The radio called: 'You see 'em?' I answered: 'Watch the fireworks.' But they let go at me first, hit my motor, burned my hand with an incendiary bullet. I was right behind three Japs and there was no use in quitting at that point...
Fire from the burning planes flared above the city and two Jap airmen plummeted cometlike to the ground as the fire from their flaming clothes spread to their chutes. But Allison was in trouble, too. His damaged engine was rattling. He headed for the Hsiang River, skittered over a log, set the ship down in the water. Chinese fished...
...plant no objection was raised to saying that the Bell Airacobra was driven by Allison liquid-cooled motors; but at Bell Aircraft itself the engine could not be named...