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...Army was willing to show that armament-it was yesterday's-but the number and caliber of guns on the Warhawk, successor to the Kittihawk, was as much a military secret as Republic's P47 Thunderbolt, the giant 2,000 h.p. fighter...
...dark midden of censorship OEM popped its head long enough for one brief, welcome word: the Republic P47 (Thunderbolt), fastest single-engined plane in the world, was about ready for quantity production...
...Army hedged its liquid-cooled bet, put down $56,500,000, the biggest pursuit plane order in its history, for a brand-new plane, the Republic P-47, built around Pratt & Whitney's 2,000-horsepower air-cooled engine. Souped up by a brand-new and secret supercharger, P47 may well be the fastest, highest-riding pursuit plane in the world, with a fighting ceiling above 35,000 feet, a top speed well above 400 m.p.h...
...news. Interested in the air-cooled v. liquid-cooled controversy only as a healthy contest, all he wants to see is U.S. planes that will fly faster, higher and farther than anything anyone else can make. In the bomber field, the U.S. is already there. Among the fighters, its P47 may be there, or nearly. At the great horsepower training table, in short, U.S. plane designers are getting plenty of soup, whatever the flavor...
...cooled engine buying, it would soon be getting a lot more power in a new batch of pursuit planes. Last week Republic Aircraft Corp. put the finishing flicks to its new P-47, powered with a 2,000-h.p. Pratt & Whitney air-cooled engine. Republic designers declared the new P47 (to go into production in a new factory within a few weeks) would top 400 miles an hour, would have a fighting altitude of 40,000 ft. Apparently the Air Corps was convinced that the P47 was good enough, for it threw overboard its policy of buying mostly liquid-cooled...