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...higher than most pilots could ever fly it. With such a ceiling, the P-40F can fight handily at around 25,000 feet. For its newest fighter Curtiss-Wright changed engines, from the liquid-cooled, U.S.-designed Allison (now 1,150 h.p.) to liquid-cooled, British-designed Rolls-Royce Merlin (1,300 h.p.), manufactured by Packard...
...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 has 2,000-to-2,200 h.p. engines flying. And last month in London, Pan American Airways President Juan Terry Trippe...
Month ago Merlin Hall ("Deac") Aylesworth acquired the title of DRAOCCCR-BAR, New Deal for Director of Radio Activities in the Office for Coordination of Commercial & Cultural Relations Between the American Republics. In plain English: chief of the radio sector of the Hemisphere Solidarity campaign...
Many a thoughtful Army airman has lately been disturbed by reports that Britain, whose heavily armed and armored pursuit planes are the world's most formidable, is no longer satisfied with its liquid-cooled Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. U. S. airmen found the report disturbing because the Army Air Corps has gone in up to its ears for a similar engine of similar horsepower -the 1,090-h.p., liquid-cooled Allison...
...Allison and Merlin should prove to be out-of-date, the Air Corps will have a lot of explaining, a lot of design switching to do. One possibility is that liquid-cooled engine manufacturers may have to switch over to manufacture of the new Rolls-Royce, with all the headaches that retooling and new airplane design would bring with it. Another is that Allison, whose production is now only 350 engines a month (with a schedule of 1,000 by next Nov. 1), may perfect the 2,000-h.p.-plus 24-cylinder engine now in its research division...