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...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...
Further specifications, plain to airmen, Greek to civilians: P-40 (Curtiss pursuit), a girl who is neat, streamlined, trim; P-38 (Lockheed's swift, highflying, two-engined interceptor that climbs so fast pilots are apt to get the bends), similar but dangerous for the inexperienced; P39 (Bell's Airacobra pursuit which has several rare features, engine behind the pilot), strange, swift, mysterious; the prefix Z (for obsolete), over age 28; O-47 (North American observation plane), a girl from Dorothy Parker's couplet-wears glasses; B-19 (Douglas' huge bomber), stylish stout...
Meanwhile the Army, screaming for more ships, decided it would dig up a production man for Republic. The man: energetic Ralph Shepard Damon, 44, whose five years as American Airlines operations vice president were preceded by two decades of aircraft designing and building, mostly with Curtiss-Wright. Damon became president last May; Kellett moved up to chairman (and finance-watcher...
...planemaker Curtiss-Wright (pursuit ships, Wright Whirlwind motors) keeps its taxes a deep secret, but apparently took the middle road. The result: first-half shipments were...
Enough aircraft makers had reported their second-quarter 1941 earnings by last week to prove one startling fact: despite the industry's terrific production pace, its first-half profits rose less than run-of-the-mill industrials. Five top-flight plane builders (Curtiss-Wright, Douglas, Martin, North American, United) netted $27,229,000 in the first six months, only 21% over 1940. But a cross section of U.S. industry (135 motors, steels, oils, etc.) was able to boost profits 30% (TIME...