Word: grummans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long Island's Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. performed the neatest reconversion trick of the week. It went into production of a brand-new commercial product: an aluminum canoe. Designed by President Leroy Grumman, who turned out the Navy's Wildcat and Hellcat fighter planes, the canoe weighs one-half to two-thirds as much as wooden canoes. A 13-footer weighs only 38 pounds, yet the thin skin is tough enough to deflect anything up to a bullet. When capsized, the canoe automatically rights itself in the water with the help of air tanks...
...Navy's planemakers, Long Island's Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. was, as expected, in good health. After the Jap surrender, Grumman stopped making its famed Hellcat and laid off all of its 22,000 workers, then hired some 5,000 back. By last week, Grumman was shaken down to production of two Navy pursuit ships, the Bearcat and the Tigercat. They still have Navy orders for production at a rate of 75 a month. This was far below Grumman's war peak of 658 planes a month but well above their best peacetime volume...
First-line flyers reported that Japan had a new defense fighter, faster, more maneuverable and better handled than anything they had seen before. Promptly the U.S. answered by unveiling the Grumman F-7F Tigercat, soon to make its combat debut with Marine fighter squadrons and Navy supercarriers. The Tigercat has twin engines, climbs a mile a minute, rates in the 425-m.p.h. speed class. For Japan the planes came, kept coming, and would continue to come...
Amid the potato fields of Long Island, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Co. last week sprouted the best production record of the war. In March, Grumman turned out 658 Navy fighting planes, most ever turned out in one month by a single U.S. plane plant. Previous record holder: North American Aviation Inc., with 571 Mustang fighters in January...
...carriers flew two squadrons of new-type Chance-Vought Corsair fighters, piloted by Marine Corps aviators. The marines long ago had won their fight to fly from escort carriers (TIME, Oct. 23), but this was different; this was the big time. They went as escort for Avenger torpedo bombers. Grumman Hellcats with Navy pilots made up the rest of this carrier's complement. It had no dive-bombers-McCain and Thach never had believed in dive-bombers...