Word: curtisses
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...altered his 50-50 rule-of-thumb policy of division of airplane production between Britain and the U. S. For all production of the best -in fact, the only-pursuit plane made in quantity in the U. S. was last week stopped for the Army, diverted wholly to Britain. Curtiss-Wright's seven P-40s per day now all go abroad until further orders.* The U. S. was giving its all. Its all was little enough, but it was all there...
...October had jumped to 46,063,000. Yet a disconcerting number of the U. S.'s armament and capital-goods makers were still working only eight hours a day. A cheering announcement - particularly for the U. S.'s remaining 8,130,000 unemployed - came from Buffalo: Curtiss-Wright and Boeing agreed to put their plans to work in three shifts a day. The National Industrial Conference Board predicted 4,000,000 new jobs in U. S. industry by next June...
...right. More through loose, wishful reporting than through the fault of manufacturers or responsible flying officers, the Army's new pursuit planes have been crowned with kudos for speeds they have not reached with military loads under service conditions. Most airmen knew last week that the Curtiss P-4O pursuit plane had a top of around 360 m.p.h., and that other Air Corps speedsters-the sleek Bell Airacobra (P-39), the twin-engined Lockheed interceptor (P-38)-were only crowding 400. They were not doing anything close to the 450 m.p.h. that many a layman thought they were...
...cooled engines 7, the Army's bet on liquid-cooled, a lot of money is at stake, in addition to the ultimate excellence of U. S. pursuit planes. The Army has let contracts of $90,500,000 for Allison engines and airplanes to put them in-Curtiss, Lockheed, Bell-and has a stake of $62,448,000 in Packard Motor Co.'s project to build liquid-cooled 1,000-h.p. Rolls-Royces - round total...
...production before next August. The maximum hope is that it can turn out 4,500 engines (to P. & W. designs) by mid-1942. Meantime, if all goes well, Pratt & Whitney will produce four to five times as many in the same period. So will Pratt & Whitney's rival, Curtiss-Wright, which is shooting for an annual capacity of 24,000 engines by next year...