Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investors got a classic example last week of the hazards in estimating wartime corporation profits. Out with their annual reports were Cessna Aircraft Co. and Beech Aircraft Corp.-both reporting for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30. Both companies are small, smart and fast-growing; both specialize in plywood, twin-engined training planes; both have recently gone into gliders; both have factories in Wichita, Kans. Yet their earnings were as different as down...
...announcement that 20,000 Germans wore slain in the Stalingrad area since last Thursday and another 7,500 killed on the central front raised the official tabulation of dead and wounded in the twin offensives...
...system that sent a twin-engine instructor out as a four-engine Flying Fortress co-pilot after he had flown a few hundred hours also brought in instructors who had been cadets only too recently. Combat pilots do not rate the Lockheed Hudson hard to handle, but it is mighty hot to fledglings whose most advanced experience has been in an AT- 9 . Yet "The Duck" found instructors who had flown Hudsons only two or three hours. Joe Duckworth was horrified. Two years ago they would not let a man sit in a bomber before he had flown...
Colonels Mallory and Duckworth set up rules: No man could become an instructor until he had six months' experience as a pilot, 300 hours on a twin-engine plane, two hours' cockpit instrument checking...
They established a board (usually four men) to evaluate instructors, reteach them basic elements of flying twin-engine planes. (Typical comment: "I learned little things that were not put across to me when I was a cadet...