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Both Avenger and Wildcat are built in the streamlined plant of the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp.-and above each Grumman building flutters the fouled-anchor-&-"E" pennant, the Navy's tribute, (first of its kind to an airplane company...
...Bethpage, Long Island, a trim new plane raced down the runway, lifted, climbed up, up, up almost beyond hearing, then peeled off into a grinding power-dive. Fresh off the assembly line, another Grumman Avenger, the Navy's new, deadly torpedo plane, was in the torturing rigors of its shakedown flight...
...other side of the world, in the shell-blasted smoke-haze of the Battle of the Coral Sea (see p. 18), swarms of bee-bodied Navy fighter planes had just proved prime factors in the United Nations' decisive victory. The planes were Grumman Wildcats, the only fighters used by U.S. aircraft carriers...
...small group of men pooled their savings, started a little company giving maintenance and replacement-parts service to privately owned passenger amphibians. The shop was set up in an old tree-shaded garage in Baldwin, L.I., with less than 20 officers and employes. President and chairman was Leroy R. Grumman, who had engineering degrees from Cornell and M.I.T., experience in naval aviation (he enlisted as a machinist's mate, second class, resigned as a lieutenant), and a wealth of aeronautical ideas. Leon A. ("Jake") Swirbul, the vice president and general manager, was also a Cornell man, a onetime Marine...
...their first day of business, in for repair came a flying boat so large that its nose stuck out in the street. A passing motorist crashed into it, immediately threatened suit. Grumman and Swirbul retired to the corner dog wagon, there ate hamburgers moodily, brooding on the unprofitable aspects of a business launched with a legal action. But after the second cup of coffee they decided to stick. The plaintiff dropped his suit when the partners offered to repair his car free. Next step was to saw off the amphibian's tail, repair it, reattach the amputated section...