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Hundreds of U.S. volunteers were to help him. Last spring they had offered themselves as mechanics and pilots for 100 old, outdated Curtiss P-40s that China had bought for Burma Road defense (TIME, June 23). Snarled by red tape, distance and misunderstanding, they had spent months establishing themselves. But for weeks now they had been practicing. Last week, their flight name chosen ("Flying Tigers"), spangled with Disney-designed insignia (a ferocious, striped tiger leaping through the point of a victory V). they were ready to begin the Battle of the Burma Road...
Summing up aircraft industry's prodigious wartime growth, Aviation calculated its manufacturing backlog at $8,343,000,000. Biggest was the yule log on Curtiss-Wright's hearth, only $5 million less than a billion. Second largest: Ford Motor Co. (engines, four-motored bombers) with $736 million. Third: Consolidated Aircraft, $725 million...
...Harlem only 70 from a training course of 1400 got jobs. Especially notorious has been the discrimination by both management and A.F. of L. unions in the aircraft industry. Glenn L. Martin with a half billion dollars of defense orders hasn't a single Negro in 18,000 workers. Curtiss-Wright has disproved the familiar and flimsy excuses of other plants by employing a large number of Negroes and finding them more than satisfactory...
...speed, P-40F figured out at 397 m.p.h. In service ceiling it had 170%, which would put it higher than most pilots could ever fly it. With such a ceiling, the P-40F can fight handily at around 25,000 feet. For its newest fighter Curtiss-Wright changed engines, from the liquid-cooled, U.S.-designed Allison (now 1,150 h.p.) to liquid-cooled, British-designed Rolls-Royce Merlin (1,300 h.p.), manufactured by Packard...
...fire power, the figures given by Curtiss-Wright showed vast improvement: 667% of the P36 (which was armed with one .30-caliber and one .50-caliber machine gun). From these figures few laymen could calculate just how many and what kind of guns the new P-40F carries. But anybody could understand the proud claim of P-40Fs builders: their new job is the hardest-hitting fighter in the world...