Word: kingcobra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes were mostly stripped-down ex-Army pursuits-wax-covered P-38s, fat-bellied P-51 Mustangs, and a Kingcobra with two feet chopped off each wing. They roared down the runway at the Van Nuys airfield, zoomed above the Hollywood hills...
Production of Curtiss' P-40 Warhawk, a version of the old P-40 with which the U.S. started the war, will be cut back, terminated by year's end. The P-61 Black Widow will keep its job as a night fighter. Bell's P-63 Kingcobra, which has a 37-mm. cannon among its armament, will be made principally for shipment to Russia...
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