Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied Headquarters filled in the story. The lost commander was one of the best-known, best-liked of U.S. airborne officers: Brigadier General Don Forrester Pratt, assistant commander of the 101st Airborne Division. He had led his detachment to a landing on the extreme right of the Allied line, northwest of Carentan. He died when his command glider crashed into a tree...
...coming off the production line is the company's XR-4. By fall this will be replaced by a later, heavier-load-carrying model, the XR5 Powered by a 450-h.p. Pratt & Whitney motor, the XR5 carries a pilot and passenger in tandem, flies faster than 110 miles an hour, has a range of some 400 miles...
Still unannounced are Pratt & Whitney's super-powered air-cooled engine, at which the services coyly hinted more than a year ago, Wright's secret power plant which has been in the works since before Pearl Harbor...
...sweep over Abbeville; the 100th mission was to bomb an airfield at Evreux, near Paris. In between she had taken the targets as they came; power plants, E-boat pens, air bases, all around France up to Holland and back. She still had her original Pratt & Whitney 2,000 h.p. engines. No one had picked any soft spots for the ship, even when she neared her record. Her last two missions were done between dawn and sunset, her last four in 36 hours...
...drew it in because: 1) he thought it would be announced before his strip appeared; 2) no other plane he knew of exactly fitted the needs of his continuity. Biggest fighter plane yet, the Black Widow is heavily armed, turns up speeds in the 400-m.p.h. class with two Pratt & Whitney engines, has a rear gun position...