Word: designate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politely declined to be drawn into the argument. It refused to designate any company as "biggest," emphasized that comparisons, either in weight or number, are unfair. Reason: a complicated Flying Fortress is more difficult to build than a heavier transport, counts no more, numerically, than a "flying jeep." No figures could take into consideration many an other factor, such as design changes, new models, experimentation. But of one thing WPB was proudly certain: the high-geared U.S. aircraft industry will build more than 100,000 planes this year, compared...
...sharp-edged "laminar flow" wing. More than a year ago they tried stepping the plane up with a more powerful engine, and passed the tip on to the U.S. Air Forces, which took up the same experiment. The present P-51B is ail-American except for the design of its 1,500-h.p. Packard-built Rolls-Royce Merlin engine (same type used in the latest Spitfires). It chews the air with a four-bladed propeller, has a two-speed, two-stage supercharger which gives it speed and climb upstairs and down...
Last week the mystery was cleared up. A joint statement by the R.A.F. and U.S. Army Air Forces announced that the Allies have developed a radically new type of fighter aircraft which flies without a propeller. It is driven entirely by jet propulsion. Work on the design was started in 1933 by ace British designer Frank Whittle, now an R.A.F. group captain. It took him four years to lick the engine problem, four more before a plane actually flew...
When Arnold asked aviation manufacturers to expand in 1938, he could guarantee them no funds, offer them no contracts. Aviation research was costly. To design and build just one 8-ft. wheel on the experimental B-19 cost $40,000; the cost of developing the famed Lockheed Lightning...
Witness Mr. Roosevelt seated more erectly and less comfortably in a partially upholstered chair of modern design, a chair so typical of the New World where the ideal of utilitarianism and comfort in a piece of furniture is but one manifestation of a nation full of ideals. . . . Its occupant reflects its attributes. For his is the expression of the idealist, the poet of politics with head high...