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...have in use two tractors: one 'Caterpillar' 4O-h.p. diesel, 1937 model, and another a John Deere diesel model 'A', I also have a 10-h.p. diesel motor for other purposes...
...adding special training and keeping academic standards high, Princeton adheres seriously to the theory, approved by the Government, that education is a national resource of first importance. Courses have been added in Russian, Arabic, Japanese. Says one senior: "We'd much rather compare the performance of a P-4O against a Japanese Zero plane than discuss the pros & cons of Union Now or the eventual fate of the Axis...
...right. More through loose, wishful reporting than through the fault of manufacturers or responsible flying officers, the Army's new pursuit planes have been crowned with kudos for speeds they have not reached with military loads under service conditions. Most airmen knew last week that the Curtiss P-4O pursuit plane had a top of around 360 m.p.h., and that other Air Corps speedsters-the sleek Bell Airacobra (P-39), the twin-engined Lockheed interceptor (P-38)-were only crowding 400. They were not doing anything close to the 450 m.p.h. that many a layman thought they were...
Three U. S. fighting planes are built around the Allison engine: Bell's Airacobra; Curtiss-Wright's snappy P-4O (also made in Buffalo) ; Lockheed's twin-engined P-38. Curtiss-Wright last week had its P-4O production up to seven a day, for the moment had enough Allisons, but only because Bell and Lockheed did not yet need them in quantity. Both soon will; there will not be enough for all three for months. One or more will have to finish fuselages and wings, store them and wait for engines...
...production was reputedly rising from a monthly rate of about 30 to its fall quota of 125. It still had a long way to go to its estimated production top, 500-600 a month. The Curtiss factory at Buffalo was meanwhile howling for Allisons for its P-4O pursuit ships, was understood to have 70 to 100 waiting for engines. Bell Aircraft, manufacturer of the speedy Airacobra, was waiting...