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...technique of launching a bomb from an airplane diving as close to the vertical as possible. But because U. S. citizens and their Congress believed in penny-pinching Army & Navy upkeep in peacetime, most of the Navy's dive-bombers today are obsolescent biplanes, descendants of the first Curtiss Helldiver...
Last week the Navy got a 1941 model Helldiver, a slick, fat-bodied monoplane that it designated XSB2C-I. Proudly announced by Curtiss-Wright Corp., the new plane is another of the Navy's new fighting craft sleekly built around a superpower, air-cooled engine-a 1,700-horse-power Wright Double-Row Cyclone. Curtiss-Wright announced that XSB2C-I is 100 miles an hour faster than any dive-bomber now in the air, which would put its top speed around 350 m.p.h. And it will carry twice the load of today's best. Since the Stuka Junkers...
...Lockheed's two-engined pursuit ("Lightning" to British pilots) does 404 m.p.h. at 16,000 feet, carries a 37-mm. cannon and four .50-calibre machine guns, has a range of 500 miles at cruising speed (350 m.p.h.). > The Curtiss pursuit (Anglice: "Tomahawk") carries two .50-calibre, four .30-calibre machine guns, has a service ceiling of 30,000 feet, top speed of 350. ¶ North American's NA-73 (Anglice: "Mustang")-very hush-hush in the U. S. and barely mentionable in the press-has a top of 398, carries six guns. ¶ Army...
...engine companies presumably had the brains to plan ahead, the money to keep big aluminum stocks on hand for current use. But, as the U. S. aircraft industry is at present organized, long-term supply alone simply did not fill the bill. Even the biggest companies (Boeing, Douglas, Curtiss-Wright, et al.) had a lot to learn about mass production and mass planning. So did the Army, the Navy and the British, whose frequent (and often necessary) changes in specification forced the manufacturers to alter their aluminum orders, further delayed delivery by ALCOA. Many a peewee aircraft maker was still...
...altered his 50-50 rule-of-thumb policy of division of airplane production between Britain and the U. S. For all production of the best -in fact, the only-pursuit plane made in quantity in the U. S. was last week stopped for the Army, diverted wholly to Britain. Curtiss-Wright's seven P-40s per day now all go abroad until further orders.* The U. S. was giving its all. Its all was little enough, but it was all there...