Word: vought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...applicant at the Chance Vought Aircraft plant at Grand Prairie, Tex. filled in his name on a company form, "Jones, Rufus." The next line read, "alias or otherwise known as." Jones wrote, "Shot...
Henry Foster (H) defeated Van Slyck (Y), 3-2; McLanahan (Y) defeated Hugh Foster (H), 3-1; McKittrick (H) defeated Vought (Y), 3-1; Blair (Y) defeated Clark (H), 3-2; Nawn (H) defeated Kempner (Y), 3-2; Hands (Y) defeated Heath (H), 301; La Roche (Y) defeated Ames (H), 3-2; Knox (Y) defeated Cabot (H), 3-1; Chandler (Y) defeated Fischelis...
Peter Van Slyck, who had a hard time taking his Princeton player, will oppose Henry Foster in the number one match. Mike McLanahan will match his all round game with Hugh Foster's playing. Peter Vought, a ranking intercollegiate squash player, will oppose Captain Jim McKittrick...
Fast planes of the future will probably look like the Navy's new jet fighter, the Chance Vought XF7U-1, which completed its initial flight tests last week. The new fighter has short, broad wings "swept back" at an angle of 45° or better. There is no tail; two stabilizers with rudders are attached to the trailing edges of the wings. Two Westinghouse turbojet engines drive the plane at better than 600 m.p.h...
Dispersal. Chance Vought Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corp., now making F4U-5 Corsair fighter-bombers for the Navy at Stratford, Conn, will move to a Navy plant at Dallas, Tex. to build F6U-1 jet-propelled Pirates. While the move is under way, Corsair production will be tapered off at Stratford and jet production started at Dallas. The shift, which will take several months to complete, is under the Government's policy to disperse war plants. Other reasons: Dallas has better flying weather and a larger airfield for experimental flights...