Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...darkness Saturday night, the British warships lost contact with the raider but a long-range Catalina scouting plane (a twin-engine American-built flying boat from the Consolidated plant in San Diego) spotted her again Sunday noon making for the French ports. Monday afternoon, about 400 miles west of Brest, she was attacked by wave after wave of fleet-based bombers and planes from the Ark Royal. Two torpedoes struck her, one amidships and the other astern...
After taking a 3 to 2 decision from Harvard and aplitting a twin-bill with Pennsylvania, Dartmouth lost a 9 to 8 battle royal to Yale, and no, with six wins and four defeats, faces its two successive-day June tilts with the League-leading Ithacans...
Overland operators are angling for 25-ton, four-engined Douglas planes (present DC-35 weigh 12½ tons loaded), four-engined, 22½-ton Boeing Stratoliners and Curtiss-Wright's new twin-engined, 36-passenger...
...Even private owners of twin-engined Lock-heeds (including Tom Girdler) were asked by OPM to give up their "air yachts...
...King was taken out on the field, where he examined Britain's best night-fighting planes, the Bristol Beau and the Douglas DB7 Havoc-bigger ships than the day fighters. They are two-seaters so that the pilot can concentrate on navigation, the gunner on spotting and shooting; twin-engined so that they would not be blinded by propeller reflection or by fiery exhausts right in front of their eyes; and with capacious fuel tanks so that the planes can stay up until dawn and not have to land in the risky light of sputtering flares...