Word: fairchilds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formidable weapons, and their limit of range and accuracy had not been approached by their German masters. But the age of rockets would not really dawn until atomic energy had been harnessed to propel them. With this in mind, the Army Air Forces recently signed a contract with the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. to develop atomic aircraft motors...
...LAMBERT FAIRCHILD New York City...
...lesson learned in World War II is that a daylight bomber is only as good as its gunnery. This week the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. announced an electronic gun sight which, its inventors said, extends the effective range of bomber machine guns from 600 to 1,000 yards...
Noel F. (for Fairchild) Busch, 38, is a character who would seem wholly plausible to any reader of detective stories. New York City-born and Princeton-bred, he is tall, lean, dark, fastidious, athletic and adventurous, conceals a lively curiosity beneath an air of skeptical and somewhat bored amusement, and is gifted with a sardonic manner which is most effective when directed at waiters who neglect to have his food prepared without butter or his bacon fried to a sufficient crispness. He is also an accomplished journalist, and has been called the rich man's Ernie Pyle. Long...
...making it possible to space charting flights 25 miles apart instead of only four to six, has enormously accelerated mapping. Last fortnight its inventor, Lieut. Colonel Gerald ("Colonel Fitz") Fitzgerald, Chief of the Air Force's aeronautical chart division, a baldish, twinkling Irishman, was awarded the Sherman Mills Fairchild plaque for his achievement...