Word: allisons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's most formidable, is no longer satisfied with its liquid-cooled Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. U. S. airmen found the report disturbing because the Army Air Corps has gone in up to its ears for a similar engine of similar horsepower -the 1,090-h.p., liquid-cooled Allison...
Fortnight ago, for reasons that no one seemed able to make plain to laymen, the Army laid out another $69,000,000 contract for Allison engines. The Army thus raised its bet on an apparently underpowered engine (and planes designed for it) to $159,500,000. And the Army also had $62.448,000 out in orders for Rolls-Royce Merlins (to be built by Packard...
Meantime the U. S. Navy felt no such pains in the head. It has bought an Allison-powered plane or two to keep up with the development parade but has stuck to the air-cooled engine for its fighter designs. Result of the Navy's unwillingness to abandon one design for another is that its newest fighter, the Vought-Sikorsky F4U (TIME, Dec. 9), is the fastest airplane built in the U. S.; its 2,000-h.p. air-cooled engine has power to burn...
...automobile manufacturers alike were sure to echo William Knudsen, say that automobile factories and machines could not be adapted to manufacture aircraft. But Mr. Reuther pointed out that two automobile body makers (Murray, Briggs) had already contracted to make aircraft parts, that General Motors was producing parts for its Allison engine in a Cadillac shop in Detroit. By compulsion if necessary, by maximum coordination in any event, he would multiply such examples a hundredfold. Furthermore, he would restrict the industry's aircraft production to a few standardized types. These would be mostly trainers and single-engined fighters; to experienced...
...industry expanded, but not enough. Soon outsiders were creeping in-with no better results. G. M. went painfully into chicken-feed production with its liquid-cooled Allison. Packard bravely took the $125,000,000 British Rolls-Royce order that Henry Ford turned down. In November, Ford himself, who had earlier talked of 1,000 planes a day, took a $122,000,000 order for Pratt & Whitney Double Wasps. His engineers went to Hartford to find out how to make them...