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With a roar and a burst of flame his sleek P39 crashed among the houses of Hempstead (pop: 21,000), south of the air base. Mothers' cries, neighbors' shouts told the incoherent rest of the story of one of the saddest crashes in history. The P39 had fallen near three children at play, doused them with flaming gasoline. That day they died...
Haled into court for driving 40 m.p.h. on Atlanta's Peachtree Street, Eastern Air Lines Pilot Andrew C. McDonouoh (who last month dive-tested the Army's new P39 Airacobra pursuit at a record 620 m.p.h.) cracked: "I thought I was just creeping along," got his sentence suspended...
...strain. All O.K. Andy McDonough was on his way back to his airline job in Atlanta by the time technicians had checked his movie film, corrected his airspeed readings for temperature and pressure. Pilot McDonough had reported his speed at something over 500. Actually, said technicians, he and the P39 had hit 620 m.p.h.-more speed than anyone had ever recorded before. Exciting rather than highly significant, the dive was still a stern test of P-39's sleekness, sturdiness...
...m.p.h. the P39 was traveling faster (909 feet per second) than the muzzle velocity of a .45-calibre pistol bullet (802 feet). With bullet speed canceled out by plane speed, the projectile theoretically would indeed have dribbled, fallen earthward...
...manufacturers; but by the time the Air Corps had bought 13 Airacudas, Larry Bell could see the Airacobra and a real manufacturing future ahead. Last week on Bell's books were Air Corps orders for 93 Airacobras, and its backlog stood at $7,400,000. And if the P39 should be released for export, Larry Bell could see more business ahead than he dreamed of a year ago. Last week the industry was abuzz with a report that a French mission was negotiating for as many Airacobras as Larry Bell could...