Word: messerschmitt
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...cooled engine, offering considerable wind resistance ("like running for a trolley car with your overcoat open," says Al Williams), does not streamline as neatly as liquid-cooled power-plants. However, the French have repeatedly expressed themselves satisfied with the P-36, and have claimed that it even outfights the Messerschmitt, being more maneuverable...
...advantages of streamlining engines into wings, and has the engines to do it. German designers already have their eyes set and their designing tools working for a speed of 500 miles an hour. Already its sleek Heinkel 112-U has hit 440 m.p.h. in level flight, and its Messerschmitt log is only a little slower...
...modern art as "Jewish" and "Bolshevist." Last year he opened a hall of "degenerate" art in Munich which proved a great success (TIME, Aug. 2, 1937). At Nürnberg last month, Realmleader Hitler, having awarded Nazi Culture Prizes No. 1 and No. 2 to Warplane Designers Heinkel and Messerschmitt, surpassed himself as an esthetician with a new pronunciamento on German art. Now, said he. "the true ancestor of German art is Greek art of the golden age; the Greeks were a Northern people run aground on a Southern land...