Word: hp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like all Fords, the big new plane is all-metal. Its wings spread no ft. From snout-like nose to ear-shaped rudder it measures 80 ft., the fuselage suggesting somewhat the flying-fish appearance of the Curtiss Condor. Inside each wing is built a 715-hp. Hispano-Suiza engine. The third engine, of 1,100 hp., is mounted atop the centre. Four passenger compartments are furnished with two standard Pullman sections each. A smoking compartment could accommodate additional passengers. There are two lavatories, a galley with gas stove...
...compact little Curtiss fighter, "the smallest plane which could be built around a 420-hp. Whirlwind," one of five built for the Navy for installation within the airship Akron...
...Vought Corsair with a Pratt & Whitney radial engine of 14 cylinders built in two banks of seven cylinders each, back to back, to deliver 625 hp. from 14 cylinders, with the head resistance of only seven cylinders...