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...Remy (electrical) division, worked up to boss of Fisher Body and Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac assembly plants. During World War II he headed G.M.'s Eastern Aircraft Division, whose plants at Linden and Trenton, N.J. were the only U.S. auto factories to convert to the production of complete airplanes (Grumman fighters and torpedo bombers...
...take-off signal went up all the way. First the Corsairs were shot from the catapults, then the big, rumbling Skyraider dive bombers; and after the propeller-driven craft were well away, the jets were brought forward. Started by motors hustled about the deck by tiny yellow jeeps, the Grumman Panthers shrieked protest, then raised their voices to a horrible, thundering howl as they shot from the catapults...
...Consolidated Vultee (backlog: $250 million) its B-36 bombers. Douglas (backlog: $216 million) will get bigger orders for its C124 transports for the Air Force and its Navy F-3-D fighters and AD attack bombers; Lockheed (backlog: $225 million) for its jet-powered F94 Air Force Penetration fighters; Grumman (backlog: $144 million) for its F-9-F Navy jet fighters. Pratt & Whitney, Curtiss-Wright and General Motors' Allison Division were all souping up engine assemblies...
...four years everybody in VF-781 had been too busy flying in the present to bother polishing up the past. One weekend every month 36 Naval Reserve pilots would converge on the Los Alamitos (Calif.) Naval Air Station and thunder off on maneuvers in their stubby Grumman Hellcat fighters-unanimously elated to escape from the humdrum chores of selling insurance, studying law or changing diapers. Their bashful, blond skipper, Lieut. Commander Collin Oveland, 32, was a weekday Mercury salesman who had dared them into the Navy's sassiest, .busiest, closest-knit Sunday fighter outfit-with first place in flight...
...other famous names of World War II-Douglas, Grumman, Fairchild Engine & Airplane, Martin, Northrop, Republic-are at work. All told, they are making only 215 planes a month, compared to World War II's peak (in March 1944) of 9,117. For the U.S. to reach such a figure again, as United Aircraft's President H. Mansfield Horner pointed out last week, would require three full years of production. It would take the aircraft engine industry a full year, said Horner, to triple today's production of 5,000 engines a year, another year to boost production...