Word: outperform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week he took the single-seater experimental fighter to the Navy's proving ground at Dahlgren, Va. for final acceptance tests. Carefully "beefed up" to withstand the terrific strain of power dives and pullouts, the ship was built to outperform and outfight any combat plane in existence. Gehlbach took it up 12,000 ft., kicked it over into a tight spin. The plane never came...