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...only liquid-cooled engine of American design now in mass production and general military use is the Allison. This engine drives the P-38, the P39 and the P-40. Its development was late in starting and was carried on under great difficulties. It has not yet caught up with its opposite numbers, Britain's Rolls-Royce (also being manufactured in this country) and Germany's Daimler-Benz...
...engine in the U.S. "medium-altitude fighters" is what keeps them down. This engine is General Motors' liquid-cooled Allison- a power plant which has been the subject and victim of more controversy than any other single element in the U.S. fighter picture. According to combat pilots recently back from fighting fronts, the Allison now going into U.S. Army fighters is reliable, efficient, easy to maintain, a good engine within its limits. Its main limit is that it does not deliver enough power above medium altitudes...
...Allison-powered plane-the twin-engined Lockheed P-38- may yet prove in combat that it is an adequate, all-around, high-altitude fighter, with its two Allisons doing what one Allison has not been able to do. Another fighter with an engine similar in general design to the Allison may also prove its worth at higher altitudes - the late-model P-40F with a Packard-made Rolls-Royce Merlin (British) engine instead of the Allison. According to published reports, the Merlin P-40 has shot up to 30,000 feet (on a par with the Spitfire and the Nazi...
...down moon from them," said Fighter Allison, "and they made a 180-degree turn away from me. The radio called: 'You see 'em?' I answered: 'Watch the fireworks.' But they let go at me first, hit my motor, burned my hand with an incendiary bullet. I was right behind three Japs and there was no use in quitting at that point...
Fire from the burning planes flared above the city and two Jap airmen plummeted cometlike to the ground as the fire from their flaming clothes spread to their chutes. But Allison was in trouble, too. His damaged engine was rattling. He headed for the Hsiang River, skittered over a log, set the ship down in the water. Chinese fished...