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Whatever the merits of Alex Taub's quest, the Sabre, already flying in the formidable Hawker Typhoon fighter, was a fair symbol of the horsepower race. Well knowing that there is no substitute for "soup," British designers had gone all out after horsepower. The Sabre turns up nearly twice the horsepower of the old British pursuit engine, the 1,200 horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin (which Packard is still tooling up to make for Britain and the U.S., under a $187,500,000 order). But the U.S. is hot after horsepower too: it already...
Last week in London Lord Beaverbrook made an announcement that many a U.S. airman had been waiting to hear. British designers, working under the drive of war, had finally produced an airplane that could do an honest 400-plus m.p.h. under service conditions. Its name: the Hawker Typhoon, lineal descendant of Britain's famed Hawker Hurricane. Beyond the fact that apparently the Luftwaffe has nothing like it, what interested many an airman most was Lord Beaverbrook's description of its engine. To drive the Ty phoon past the 400-m.p.h. mark the Napier engine company had turned...
Last week the Air Corps heard some more disturbing news. Into Washington trickled authenticated reports that Rolls-Royce had brought out a 2,000-h.p. job, and that it had pulled a new Hawker Typhoon, bristling with guns and loaded with armor, at better than 410 m.p.h. If this new, more powerful engine holds up in service, the Air Corps may have to revise its notions on horsepower...
...some reason, the more children a mother has already had, the more likely she is to bear a big baby. Dr. William Davis Hawker of St. Louis checked the weights and family rank of 8,890 children born at the St. Louis City Hospital over a five-year period. Of these, 102 (1.1%) weighed over 4,500 grams (9.9 pounds). The average baby in this heavyweight group was a fifth child, whereas the average for the whole was a third child...
...Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association last week, Dr. Hawker noted that surgical interference was necessary twice as frequently for the 102 heavyweights (14.7%) as for the whole series (7.2%). The ratio of the common head presentation to the uncommon breech presentation was the same for the big babies as for the whole group, but three out of four of the hindside-first heavyweight babies were lost. Altogether eight of the big babies died before or during delivery. But among their mothers there were only two cases of hemorrhage after birth, and not one mother died...