Word: outspeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Corsair was something new in combat aircraft: a big, rugged fighter powered with a 2,000-h.p. engine (Pratt & Whitney). Designed as a carrier craft, it is fast enough for land operations, will outspeed most land-based craft now in combat. Maneuverable, and swift on the climb, it also has...
"Connie" was built to be a world traveler (on specifications laid down by TWA before the war). Her Wright engines packed more than 8,000 h.p.-how much more the Army would not allow Lockheed to say. Her engineers had built her to span the continent in one hop of...
Chief Engineer William Sutcliffe mostly shrugged and shook his head. The only definite things he would say were that he had used all twelve of her boilers and that some day she would outspeed the Queen Mary. But about the crossing he was modestly mum.