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Each Air Force is divided into a bomber command and an interceptor command...
...with kudos for speeds they have not reached with military loads under service conditions. Most airmen knew last week that the Curtiss P-4O pursuit plane had a top of around 360 m.p.h., and that other Air Corps speedsters-the sleek Bell Airacobra (P-39), the twin-engined Lockheed interceptor (P-38)-were only crowding 400. They were not doing anything close to the 450 m.p.h. that many a layman thought they were...
According to my juggling of the figures in the enclosed clipping from the New York Times, Lockheed is to be paid $73>85° apiece for making 410 interceptor pursuit planes and Boeing is to get $254,332 apiece for 277 heavy bombers ordered under War Department contract last week...
This year, in the Vanguard interceptor pursuit, Vultee produced one of the fastest planes in the sky. Since March, World War II has tripled Vultee's backlog of unfilled orders to an estimated $40,000,000 (all military, some foreign...
...Lockheed Aircraft Corp. $4,845,000 for two-engined, 420-m.p.h. interceptor pursuits (for defense against high-flying bombers...