Word: vought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy Monoplane fighter with strange bent wings, not unlike a Junkers Stuka's. WPAsters working on the field's new runways gave it scarcely a glance, because it was an old sight. Almost every day for weeks past the new F4U had been rolled out of the Vought-Sikorsky plant across the road, had throbbed, roared, leaped into the air, whisked out of sight...
...industry into their business, on their own hook. Hudson is to make parts for Curtiss-Wright airplanes; Studebaker has been licensed to build Wright engines. Packard has a contract to make 9,000 Rolls-Royce engines for the U. S. and Great Britain. Douglas and United Aircraft's Vought-Sikorsky (airplane) division also look to automobile-body factories for airplane parts. Last week the biggest of all these contract links between the two industries was completed. Let to Henry Ford was a $122,000,000 contract to build Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines...
...scheduled flight to Lisbon with mail & express, in 14 months a regular passenger service. More, the newborn line expected to do it non stop and pare Pan Am's eastbound flying time from 23 to 20½ hours. For that American Export relied on three four-motored Vought-Sikorsky 8-443 to be delivered by United Aircraft Corp. eleven, 14 and 16 months from now. Carbon copies of the U. S. Navy's new long-range bombers (with mail compartments substituted for bomb racks), the 175-m.p.h. (cruising speed) S-44s will carry 16 passengers, a crew...
After work and on Sundays, Sikorsky & helpers had puttered for months over a strange, spindle-shanked machine in a corner of United Aircraft Corp.'s Vought-Sikorsky plant, across the road from the municipal airport at Bridgeport, Conn. Last week overalled mechanics trundled it on the field and a crowd gawked at its three-bladed, 14-foot overhead rotor (propeller), its spraddle-legged landing gear, its conventional airplane controls. Into the pilot's seat crawled Designer Sikorsky. The 75-h.p. engine back of the seat of his pants began to buzz, the rotor began to whirl. Three tiny...
Satisfied that he had the answer to vertical-lift flight, Igor Sikorsky was also satisfied that he needed only a new engine to make his machine go high in the air, travel long distances at better than 100 miles an hour. Already under way in the Vought-Sikorsky plant is a new helicopter with a 200-h.p. engine...