Word: vought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eggs before they have hatched into fighting cocks, no nation has more sinned than the U.S. For more than two years it has bragged to itself about Republic's Thunderbolt fighter, which it has yet to see in action. For more than three years it bragged about Vought's high-powered Corsair. It had to wait until last week to hear that the Corsair was finally in action...
Sixty women specialists will be enrolled in the Yale School of engineering this January for an intensive eight-week aeronautical training course it was announced in New Haven Monday. They will be employees of the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corporation, and will work in the Vought-Sikorsky plants upon the completion of their course...
While studying at New Haven, members of the course will be paid a regular salary, and work on a shop schedule daily from 9 until 5 o'clock. After their graduation they will learn shop technique at the Vought-Sikorsky. Trade School in Bridgeport, and then take jobs at the Stratford plant...
...field where the top Navy men of all nations have been sound asleep, the U.S. is a long way out in front. Grumman's famed Wildcat fighters are the best carrier craft in the world, will soon have to fight for their title with another U.S. product: Vought-Sikorsky's gull-winged Corsair. Grumman's new torpedo-plane Avenger has no equal in foreign services. Consolidated's Catalinas have piled up an unequaled record for reliable scouting. And bigger and faster flying boats are coming: Consolidated's four-engined Coronado, Martin's gargantuan Mars...
...completed plane will be a wartime version of the Vought-Sikorsky 30-ton, four-engined air yachts now used by American Export Airlines to wing over the Atlantic. It will have a 125-foot wingspread, a huge payload, a 4,000-mile range. Parts and sub-assemblies (everything except the engines) will be made in existing Nash plants, put together in a great plant now abuilding in New Orleans...