Word: grummans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently four top-flight Pan Am troubleshooters, on a survey flight were forced to return to the Caribbean without going south of Natal. They were flying a Grumman amphibian which required special flight permissions, and these the Brazilian Aeronautics Ministry, which is a cumbersome body, including some Nazi sympathizers, refused to grant...
Avenger for the Grumman TBF torpedo bombers...
Pictured on page 19 are types of carrier planes which would bear the brunt of naval air war if it comes before the ships now on order are available: Grumman fighters, designed to protect the fleet from enemy attack by destroying enemy planes; Douglas torpedo planes, for attack on enemy vessels; Curtiss scout bombers, whose dual role is to scout and to pepper the enemy ships with light bombs...
...also had leak-proofed tanks (which Martin and Manufacturer Leroy Grumman had for years vainly begged the Army and Navy to use), armored cockpits...
...most ($34,000,000) to Allison, already busy with expansion of its Indianapolis plant and making some parts (e. g., crank and camshafts) in G. M.'s Cadillac factory. Among plants in line for next orders: Martin, Lockheed (reported expecting $125,000,000 for pursuits and bombers), possibly Grumman and Consolidated, which makes flying boats and bombers. Also in line was many another plant, if not for its own product at least for farmed-out orders, or for aircraft parts. To labor, to the overworked machine-tool industry, to instrument makers like Sperry and Pioneer, to accessory builders will...