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...vital European theater our newest fighters have not been fully tried up to now. Appraisal of our older fighter types-the Bell P39 and the Curtiss P-40-compels the conclusion that they are not right for operation under today's high-altitude tactics in Britain. Both are outclassed in the high-altitude field by the British Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt 109 and Focke-Wulf 190. But it is one of the paradoxes of aircraft performance that the P39 has proved a splendid weapon on the Russian and Aleutian fronts [where lower altitudes are the rule] and that...
...days the Japs had plenty of opportunity to pick up plane pointers from sales-minded U.S. and European manufacturers. They bought one, two, or a few of each type that looked good, and immediately set about copying them. United Aircraft's Pratt & Whitney and Curtiss-Wright's Wright Aeronautical Corp. licensed Japanese manufacturers to make certain types of their motors. Hamilton Standard (propellers) sold their plans outright. Douglas Aircraft sold them the original...
...Pensacola admiral is Admiral Towers. He has been flying since Glenn Curtiss taught him how in 1911. It was he who commanded the famous NCs when the NC4 became the first (1919) plane to cross the Atlantic. When appointed chief of BuAer he had been 28 years an airman...
...Arnold was on the spot. U.S. fighter pilots in England had damned the present production models of U.S. fighting planes (Curtiss P-40, Bell Airacobra P-39) in no uncertain terms only a fortnight after the top air general had described all U.S.-built military aircraft in syrupy language (TIME...
...more men. Packard had plenty of war-production experience-it jumped the gun on all other automakers by snagging a British aviation engine contract in 1940. But its operations still lacked the drive needed for its terrific job, turning out endless thousands of Rolls-Royce aircraft engines (for Curtiss fighters) and Packard-designed supermarine engines (for PT boats). So Engine-Maker Christopher cooked up a production-boosting plan, based on the idea that: "It must bring in the entire organization...