Word: allisons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hall at the company proving ground at Milford, G.M.'s visitors saw samples of G.M.'s vast work-in-progress: airplane instruments, Army trucks ranging from earth-borers (for planting land mines) to floodlight units, guns, airplane, automobile and ship engines, propellers. Prime exhibit was an Allison airplane engine. G.M. has contracts for $242,000,000 worth of them, is turning them out in Indianapolis at a rate of close to 700 a month. Other G.M. jobs...
Near Long Island's Mitchel Field one last week, Lieut. Roy W. Scott of the Air Forces saw sudden trouble on the instrument board dials of his swift Bell Aircobra. With his Allison engine revving at critically high speed (ground witnesses his suspected his propeller control had gone of whack), he headed for home, was too late by a tragic few seconds...
...field in next year's airplane, an XP-46, leaner and trimmer than its blood brothers. Still experimental, the XP-46 is Curtiss-Wright's bid for speeds above 400 miles an hour. Secret in design, it is reputedly chalking up fast performances with an old Allison...
Eventually it will probably be powered by a still newer 1,350-h.p. Allison. By the time it flies in battle it will almost certainly have vastly more fire power than today's Kittihawk-perhaps twice as much...
Best news of all is that when the P46 is ready for service it will call for no long wait in production. Most of its parts are like the parts that now go into the Kittihawk. To get its new 1,350-h.p. engine into production, Allison has only minor changes to make in its assembly line...