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Trussed up like a shoat bound for market, a Curtiss Kittihawk fighter plane spewed bullets into a wood and earth bunker at Buffalo. In the Army's first public demonstration of warplane firepower since Pearl Harbor, the gas-pipe-like guns threw more than 387 Ib. of lead and armor-piercing steel per minute, clattering like a dozen riveting hammers inside a caisson...
...influx of women, all agree, has spruced up male workers. When a pert miss came into Curtiss Wright's St. Louis plant as a tool designer, the men, after one dumbfounded day, began wearing ties and shaving with great frequency. In some still womanless departments of North American Aviation in Kansas City men workers complain in the plant's paper that the promised blondes haven't arrived...
...left Java and landed at an airport in the north of Australia, we heard a single plane coming in at midnight. There was a hell of a crash as an old box-kite biplane zoomed crazily and nearly nosed over. We rushed out and there was an old Curtiss-God knows what model, but it must have been early experimental-smashed badly. None of us would have been allowed to fly it, let alone fight in it. Under the plane there lay a Dutch pilot about 40. He was beating the ground and sobbing, not because he was hurt...
...dreary, ever-pressing shortages of strategic materials pose one of the most troublesome problems of the U.S. air arm: the need of spacious, speedy transport units to move personnel and equipment to combat areas. Last week Curtiss-Wright Corp. had a new answer on the drawing board: a mammoth transport plane, perhaps the world's largest of its type, made mainly of plywood and plastics...
...Said Curtiss-Wright: the plane will have "the speed required by modern warfare and will be constructed largely of wood and materials not included in the list of military priorities." Production will begin as soon as a new factory, site undisclosed, is completed...