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...Hawker Typhoon, lineal descendant of Britain's famed Hawker Hurricane. Beyond the fact that apparently the Luftwaffe has nothing like it, what interested many an airman most was Lord Beaverbrook's description of its engine. To drive the Ty phoon past the 400-m.p.h. mark the Napier engine company had turned out a 24-cylinder, liquid-cooled engine (the Napier Sabre) that turned up an incredible 2,350 h.p. for takeoff, an equally incredible 1,800 at the Typhoon's best operating altitude (secret...
Meanwhile the British, all-out in the manufacture of Typhoons, were also busy with another plane, the Tornado, powered by a 2,000-h.p. Rolls-Royce (the Vulture). Better bet of the two seemed to be the Napier, and last week British representatives in Washington were reputed to be urging OPM to get busy and manufacture Sabres on a big scale. Luckily for the U.S. Army Air Corps, one of its top-flight airmen has seen the Typhoon perform, has had a good look at its engine. British newsmen reported that Major General Henry H. Arnold seemed more impressed...
Well might "Hap" Arnold be impressed, because the big end of the Air Corps's engine purchases for pursuit airplanes is in liquid-cooled power plants of half the Napier Sabre's power. For General Motors' Allisons the Army has laid out $159,500,000, and it has contracted for $62,448,000 of Rolls-Royce Merlins to be built by Packard. While waiting for General Arnold to report, Air Corpsmen could find comfort in another fact: whatever was done about liquid-cooled engine buying, it would soon be getting a lot more power...
...General Motors had just adopted a new process for making Allison crankshafts 20-30% stronger than before. Still under test was Allison's new engine that may still match Britain's superpowered, engines: a 24-cylinder power plant (built in a W, not an H like the Napier), designed to equal the Sabre's power...
...only is it Miss George's evening from curtain to curtain, but the supporting cast, with the exception of Alan Napier, have a bad habit of being rather commonplace people whom we have seen too often on the stage before. The comedy of "Lady In Waiting" has far less to do with Margery Sharp than with Miss George for its author deals in situations rather than barbed lines. And it is these situations where Gladys George takes over and makes us eat out of her hand. She can be coy and bawdy in one breath, charming and hussyish in another...