Word: ascendere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the good grey New York Times appeared a picture of Curtiss-Wright's new XP-55 experimental fighter (see U.S. AT WAR). The Times ran a five-line headline to explain solemnly why the new backside-to plane is called the Ascender:
EXPERIMENTAL FIGHTER CRAFT MADE BY CURTISS-WRIGHT HAS SUCH A HIGH RATE OF CLIMB IT HAS BEEN DUBBED THE ASCENDER
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