Word: curtisses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eleven ships leaving for Russia, including steamer with airplane motors and 28 long-range guns. One steamer has deckload airplanes, below deck airplane motors, Boeing and Douglas airplane parts on steamer with Curtiss-Wright airplanes, motors and small munitions, searchlights and telegraphic material...
Billy stumped the country for parts orders. By the time he got his first big one - for wing ribs for Curtiss P-40s - he had found enough unused machinery to handle it: mechanical presses that used to make auto fenders, shears that used to stamp out license plates at Kentucky's La Grange Reformatory...
...rely on Liberator bombers, converted to cargo craft and thus long on power and short on freight space. But planes are on the way. Douglas, besides turning out the veteran DC-35, is also producing the C-54, a four-engined mon ster with a payload of ten tons. Curtiss is turning out the powerful two-engined Commando ("Dumbo" to airmen) which made the mass flight to India...
...time until after the Mirandas' contracts had run out. One of their Latin-American deals ended, in 1940, in a Federal sentence for violating the President's 1934 neutrality proclamation by selling bombs to Bolivia (via Chile) in the Gran Chaco War. The bombs went into Curtiss-Wright planes and Curtiss pleaded guilty to the same charges - but the Mirandas were sent to Lewisburg Penitentiary while Curtiss got a $220,000 fine. This year their main American Armaments plant was requisitioned by the Government, turned over to Vultee...
...airplanes will be discontinued. One of them is a secret. The other is the Curtiss P-40 series which has filled a big gap in the Air Forces in spite of its limitations (altitude, speed and rate of climb). Its record in the Pacific indicated that it had all but outlived its usefulness. But the P-40 has already had one reprieve. It was to have been discontinued in February. As a result of its successes in Africa it will now be produced until next fall. (If its successor, a new, secret Curtiss fighter, does not pan out as well...