Word: suiza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republics before they gave it up. But it taught Fred about engines, and when, at 30, he was commissioned a ist lieutenant in World War I, the Army made him an aircraft-engine inspector. He was sent to New Brunswick, N.J., where Wright-Martin was making the famed Hispano-Suiza engine under French license. There Rentschler was converted to aviation. At war's end, he told brother George: "Come hell or high water, I'm going to stay...
...plane for every American family-left him unmoved. He was sure the future of aviation lay in bigger aircraft, ever more powerful engines. He went looking for a place to build a brand-new air-cooled engine that would outclass the liquid-cooled engines such as the French Hispano-Suiza which then dominated the air world. He found his spot at the Pratt & Whitney tool company, a generations-old firm of precision instrument makers. When Rentschler unpacked his plans for the engine and predicted that the U.S. Navy would need hundreds of them for the planes of its infant carrier...