Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edmund Turney Allen had survived many a forced landing and some crashes in a quarter century. But he had always brought his defective ship in, had reported in carefully scientific terms what had happened and why. He had first-flown at least 80 types of aircraft, and, because he was also a research engineer, he was always able to find and report the changes that must be made to make an airplane safe and efficient...
Testing and Insurance. Most of the big ones were Eddie Allen's babies-Douglas' DCs, Boeing's Stratoliner and Clipper, Consolidated's four-motored Coronado, Curtiss-Wright's Commando, Lockheed's new Constellation (which he shook down last month). Greatest single tribute to his skill was that a big insurance company refused to cover such test flights unless Eddie Allen was up front...
...Eddie Allen's greatest single contribution to World War II was probably his share in the development of the Flying Fortress. When Allen went to Boeing (as "Director of Flight and Aerodynamics") in 1939, after a decade as consulting engineer to most of the aviation industry, "Flying Fortress" was a misnomer. The plane was lightly armed and lightly armored...
...Allen's problem: how to add 20,000 Ib. weight to the Fortress without decreasing its altitude or its speed. Adding a tail-gun was revolutionary in itself. It meant greatly increased weight, a displaced center of gravity. How well Eddie Allen succeeded in applying his test-pilot-M.I.T. knowledge of engineering is emphasized almost daily from Rabaul to Bizerte...
Daredeviltry and Research. Eddie Allen, 47, looked like no Hollywood conception of a test pilot. He was modest to the point of shyness. Frail as a column of smoke, he never weighed more than 135. The few straggly strands of hair on top of his bald pate made him look like a tweedy cupid. His nose was fused into his face when he spun to earth more than 20 years ago in young Fred Harvey's white Curtiss Jenny, but many years later a plastic surgeon built him a creditable nose...