Word: curtisses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the blessing of the U.S. Army, Curtiss-Wright Corp. last week let out a military secret: the performance of its new fighters. Barred from releasing figures on speed, altitude capabilities or fire power of its newest pursuit ships (P-40F) Curtiss-Wright unbagged the cat by publishing certain percentages...
This conclusion could not be lightly laughed off. It was made in Aviation, top-flight technical magazine, by T. P. Wright, assistant chief of OPM's aircraft branch and onetime production expert of Curtiss-Wright Corp...
...from the British, who have given their planes such lively names as Hurricane and Spitfire, the Navy last week gave names to its planes. Abandoned (except for official correspondence) was the Navy's peculiar code of airplane designations: SO3C (for Scout Observation plane, type 3, made by Curtiss), PB2Y (for Patrol Bomber, type 2, made by Consolidated), etc. The new lexicon...
Seagull for the Curtiss SO3C...
Helldiver (long in unofficial use) for the Curtiss SB2C...