Word: airacobra
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...last week laid low the myth that U.S. aircraft manufacturers cannot build fighters fit for World War II. The first R.A.F. squadron equipped with the first U.S. planes designed for full fighter duty in Great Britain tried out its wings. The ship was Lawrence D. ("Larry") Bell's Airacobra...
...Australian, British, Czech, Canadian and New Zealand pilots in the squadron brought down a unanimous verdict: within its effective altitudes the Airacobra is the fastest fighter in the R.A.F. When a U.S. newsman asked the commander if he was praising the ship for the press, the commander snarled: "I don't talk for the papers. I bloody well mean what...
...scrupulous commander was careful to specify that what he said applied only to the Airacobra's effective altitudes; the Spitfire is still the R.A.F.'s high-altitude standby. Said he: "You can't have everything in one aircraft. We have got to specialize...
...specifications, plain to airmen, Greek to civilians: P-40 (Curtiss pursuit), a girl who is neat, streamlined, trim; P-38 (Lockheed's swift, highflying, two-engined interceptor that climbs so fast pilots are apt to get the bends), similar but dangerous for the inexperienced; P39 (Bell's Airacobra pursuit which has several rare features, engine behind the pilot), strange, swift, mysterious; the prefix Z (for obsolete), over age 28; O-47 (North American observation plane), a girl from Dorothy Parker's couplet-wears glasses; B-19 (Douglas' huge bomber), stylish stout...
With a composition as clean as an Airacobra's wing, Vienna-born Posterman Joseph Binder won $500 for the best design for Army Air Corps recruiting. A deft color job that made the most of his abstractionist science won Painter John Atherton of Ridgefield, Conn, first money for the best poster boosting Treasury defense bonds. The Treasury announced that it would purchase Atherton's winner and 16 others. The Army promised to take a look at the best work in the Army Air Corps division...