Word: grumman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago it became known that the one-year rule has been chucked out the window. Douglas' new bomber, Bell's cannon-carrying pursuit ship Airacobra, Curtiss' P-40D pursuit, the new two-engined Lockheed and Grumman pursuits were released for sale to the Allies. Along with them went the Army Air Corps' most prized engine design: the liquid-cooled, 12-cylinder Allison...
...British fleet for protection in the Atlantic was misplaced. British successes later eased that fear, but a tremor remained. For the Allies, Washington speeded export of the newest U. S. fighting planes. Latest, possibly the fastest (over 425 m.p.h.), was a beetle-like, twin-engined, multi-gunned Grumman fighter designed for the Navy and offered last week to the French...