Word: curtisses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right. More through loose, wishful reporting than through the fault of manufacturers or responsible flying officers, the Army's new pursuit planes have been crowned with kudos for speeds they have not reached with military loads under service conditions. Most airmen knew last week that the Curtiss P-4O pursuit plane had a top of around 360 m.p.h., and that other Air Corps speedsters-the sleek Bell Airacobra (P-39), the twin-engined Lockheed interceptor (P-38)-were only crowding 400. They were not doing anything close to the 450 m.p.h. that many a layman thought they were...
...cooled engines 7, the Army's bet on liquid-cooled, a lot of money is at stake, in addition to the ultimate excellence of U. S. pursuit planes. The Army has let contracts of $90,500,000 for Allison engines and airplanes to put them in-Curtiss, Lockheed, Bell-and has a stake of $62,448,000 in Packard Motor Co.'s project to build liquid-cooled 1,000-h.p. Rolls-Royces - round total...
Aircraft manufacturers had already begun to bring the automobile industry into their business, on their own hook. Hudson is to make parts for Curtiss-Wright airplanes; Studebaker has been licensed to build Wright engines. Packard has a contract to make 9,000 Rolls-Royce engines for the U. S. and Great Britain. Douglas and United Aircraft's Vought-Sikorsky (airplane) division also look to automobile-body factories for airplane parts. Last week the biggest of all these contract links between the two industries was completed. Let to Henry Ford was a $122,000,000 contract to build Pratt & Whitney...
...production before next August. The maximum hope is that it can turn out 4,500 engines (to P. & W. designs) by mid-1942. Meantime, if all goes well, Pratt & Whitney will produce four to five times as many in the same period. So will Pratt & Whitney's rival, Curtiss-Wright, which is shooting for an annual capacity of 24,000 engines by next year...
Theory since last month has been that the Army buys all Curtiss-Wright engines, the Navy all Pratt & Whitney engines (for both services). This procedure, supposed to simplify procurement and cut out much red tape and duplication, has helped to do both. But the Army and the Navy are still unable to agree on uniform engines of the same types, still demand their own peculiar furbelows. Result: continued lost motion, wastage, delay...