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This speed of the Kittihawk comes from a new Allison engine, the model "F." Turning out 1,150 h.p., it has 100 more horses than the old Allison "C," although smaller in overall dimensions. This engine is also in high-speed production at the Allison plant in Indianapolis. More than 550 were coming off the line every month...
...field in next year's airplane, an XP-46, leaner and trimmer than its blood brothers. Still experimental, the XP-46 is Curtiss-Wright's bid for speeds above 400 miles an hour. Secret in design, it is reputedly chalking up fast performances with an old Allison...
Eventually it will probably be powered by a still newer 1,350-h.p. Allison. By the time it flies in battle it will almost certainly have vastly more fire power than today's Kittihawk-perhaps twice as much...
When Lieut. Hetrick and his classmates left Kelly Field, they had an average of 225 flying hours, winding up on relatively safe advanced trainers which cruise at about 180 m.p.h., land at a sane 65-70 m.p.h. Allison-engined, Curtiss-made P-40s do 300 m.p.h. in routine flight, land at a hot 90-100 m.p.h...
...engines (2,850,000 horsepower) a month. The supply will be stepped up more than 2 for 1 after Ford, Buick and Studebaker come into production late this fall with their air-cooled engine plants, will jump again when Chevrolet starts producing radials by the fall of 1942. Allison, with production-slowing difficulties now apparently licked, has big production in sight, hopes to catch up with plane production by fall...