Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...payoff score was registered when Charles Burlington pulled down a long pass from Lester Katz and raced across the goal line. The Bunnies swept the other end of the twin bill as their Freshmen beat the Dunster Junior squad...
...Allison-powered plane-the twin-engined Lockheed P-38- may yet prove in combat that it is an adequate, all-around, high-altitude fighter, with its two Allisons doing what one Allison has not been able to do. Another fighter with an engine similar in general design to the Allison may also prove its worth at higher altitudes - the late-model P-40F with a Packard-made Rolls-Royce Merlin (British) engine instead of the Allison. According to published reports, the Merlin P-40 has shot up to 30,000 feet (on a par with the Spitfire and the Nazi...
...Midland, Tex. he watched a youngster who had trudged in only a week before go 4,000 feet aloft in a twin-engine bombardier-trainer plane, drop a stick of bombs smack in the center of a 100-ft. circle. He saw San Antonio's student navigators, riding on motor-drawn platforms above a classroom map, work out problems they would face in the air. At Harlingen, Tex. he watched blindfolded enlisted men take machine guns apart and put them together again by touch, as they must in the gloom of a tail turret on a night-bombing mission...
...flying the Army has promised to "lend-lease" new cargo planes to the airlines as fast as they come off production lines-a minimum of 300 by Christmas. Said General George: "The only limit is [the airlines'] ability to expand." Biggest immediate addition will be scores of sturdy, twin-engined Douglas DC-35, now rolling off California production lines at a record clip. Next will come giant 25-ton Douglas DC-45, able to tote a ten-ton payload non-stop for 2,200 miles. For the rest of the fleet the Army will lend the airlines huge newfangled...
Richard E. Hill, North Bend., Wash., William E. Horton 2G.B., Riverton, Nebr., Ray W. House, Mansfield, III., Willard A. Johnson, Wichita, Kans., Gordon L. Taylor, Twin Peaks, Calif., Samuel T. Keim, Roanoke, Tex., Alan F. Lafley, Keene, N. H., Charles H. Lundquist, Portland, Ore., George J. Mason, Jr., Dallas...