Word: 40f
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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PB2Y (patrol plane) may now be officially spoken of as the Coronado, the P-40F (fighter) the Warhawk, the SBD (dive-bomber) the Dauntless. But it was still hard to visualize a dusty, sweaty operations officer telling a pilot to "get in that Skymaster and take some food up to the boys at Buna." (Skymaster-C-54 four-engined transport...
...combat that it is an adequate, all-around, high-altitude fighter, with its two Allisons doing what one Allison has not been able to do. Another fighter with an engine similar in general design to the Allison may also prove its worth at higher altitudes - the late-model P-40F with a Packard-made Rolls-Royce Merlin (British) engine instead of the Allison. According to published reports, the Merlin P-40 has shot up to 30,000 feet (on a par with the Spitfire and the Nazi Focke-Wulf...
With the blessing of the U.S. Army, Curtiss-Wright Corp. last week let out a military secret: the performance of its new fighters. Barred from releasing figures on speed, altitude capabilities or fire power of its newest pursuit ships (P-40F) Curtiss-Wright unbagged the cat by publishing certain percentages...
...speed, P-40F figured out at 397 m.p.h. In service ceiling it had 170%, which would put it higher than most pilots could ever fly it. With such a ceiling, the P-40F can fight handily at around 25,000 feet. For its newest fighter Curtiss-Wright changed engines, from the liquid-cooled, U.S.-designed Allison (now 1,150 h.p.) to liquid-cooled, British-designed Rolls-Royce Merlin (1,300 h.p.), manufactured by Packard...
...fire power, the figures given by Curtiss-Wright showed vast improvement: 667% of the P36 (which was armed with one .30-caliber and one .50-caliber machine gun). From these figures few laymen could calculate just how many and what kind of guns the new P-40F carries. But anybody could understand the proud claim of P-40Fs builders: their new job is the hardest-hitting fighter in the world...