Word: airacobras
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
...weeks ago it became known that the one-year rule has been chucked out the window. Douglas' new bomber, Bell's cannon-carrying pursuit ship Airacobra, Curtiss' P-40D pursuit, the new two-engined Lockheed and Grumman pursuits were released for sale to the Allies. Along with them went the Army Air Corps' most prized engine design: the liquid-cooled, 12-cylinder Allison...
...that its engine, a 1,000 h. p., Prestone-cooled, inline Allison, is not in the nose, but behind the pilot. Built for sleek streamlining, the twelve-cylinder Allison (made by General Motors) drives the three-bladed prop through a shaft. Best thing about this is that it makes Airacobra's air-splitting nose thin and wartless, still leaves room up front for Airacobra's most deadly fang: a 37-millimeter (1½ |inch) cannon which fires through the propeller hub. Alongside its cannon, biggest carried by any single-engined pursuit ship, are two .30-calibre...
...square-chinned, 46-year-old Lawrence Doane Bell of Bell Aircraft, the Airacobra is a thesis in an aeronautics course which began 28 years ago. He left high school in Santa Monica, Calif, to become a mechanic for famed Lincoln Beachey-the "greatest flier" in many a pilot's lexicon-and for his own big brother, Grover Bell. Next year death came to Grover Bell in a crash, and discouraged Larry left the game. But by the time Beachey was killed in 1915 Larry Bell was back as a mechanic for Early-Bird Glenn L. Martin (whose firm...
...president of Bell Aircraft Corp., with Robert J. Woods as his boss designer. While Woods was turning out the two-engined Airacuda, Bell Aircraft was making ends meet by subcontracting for other manufacturers; but by the time the Air Corps had bought 13 Airacudas, Larry Bell could see the Airacobra and a real manufacturing future ahead. Last week on Bell's books were Air Corps orders for 93 Airacobras, and its backlog stood at $7,400,000. And if the P39 should be released for export, Larry Bell could see more business ahead than he dreamed of a year...