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...best hopes that the U.S. can forge ahead lies in the past performance of Fred Rentschler, who has probably done as much for U.S. aviation as anyone since the Wright brothers. Starting from scratch a quarter-century ago with fledgling Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co., he transformed U.S. military and transport aviation with his air-cooled Wasp engine. In the late '20s and '30s, Wasps, Hornets and the famed Wright Whirlwind (which Rentschler had just produced) were the midwives for the birth of the Air Age. They powered the fighters for the Navy's new aircraft carriers...
...Corsair observation-fighter, and in William E. Boeing's fighters, the engine proved itself so conclusively that the Navy almost entirely abandoned liquid-cooled engines, and the Army also bustled to get Wasp-powered planes. Bill Boeing, quick to grasp what the Wasp would do to commercial air transport costs, grabbed the first Chicago-San Francisco airmail contract by underbidding everybody else by nearly half. To everybody's amazement, he made money doing it, and gave commercial flying a tremendous boost. Explained Boeing: "We would rather carry more mail than a radiator and water for cooling...
...American mind, or at least those minds which the British Overseas Airways Corporation flew over (the flight inaugurated a new direct Boston to London flight), much of the South Bank exhibitions seemed slightly on the ordinary side. Exhibits about seas and ships, transport, and sports reminded us of English cooking: even when adequate basic materials were available, the result was unimaginative and unstimulating...
...sparks of light or puffs of dust on the desert. But in closely guarded factories all over the U.S., the birds are hatching. The head of one U.S. aircraft company predicts that within ten years they will dominate air warfare, and that piloted aircraft will be used only for transport...
Practically the only capital equipment the Russians have put into Albania are trucks to transport ore, and pipelines which carry oil to the port of Durazzo...