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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...
...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...
Excepting a mail contract, Am Ex has all the musts for transatlantic flying. Last week it proudly showed newsmen one near-finished $700,000 flying boat, the hulls of two sister boats abuilding in United Aircraft's Vought-Sikorsky plant. Besides these, Am Ex has CAB approval of its proposed New York-to-Lisbon run; the State Department has guaranteed landing rights in Lisbon; it has leased for 40 years (and $1,400,000) hangar space at La-Guardia Airport; it has trained personnel...
Vindicator for the Vought SB2U...