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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...
...headed south, landed an hour later at Washington (275 miles), where Navy pilots flew it, found it good. Of Vought-Sikorsky's new F4U, built on contract to Navy specifications, Secretary of the Navy Knox had proudly announced that it had a high speed in excess of 400 m.p.h. Tough, seasoned Rear Admiral Jack Towers, the Navy's veteran flying air chief, had said to newsmen: "I believe this to be the fastest airplane in the U. S. today." One newsman, remembering glowing reports of 450-m.p.h. speeds by other U. S. fighting aircraft, asked how come...
When P. & W. came out with its 1,850-h.p. radial engine, later stepped up to 2,000, the Vought-Sikorsky F4U became feasible, with the assistance of research-wise National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which helped slick the new plane up as no air-cooled job had ever been slicked before. An old flying adage is that "there is no substitute for soup," i.e., horsepower. In soup the new radials were ahead of the Allison by close to 2-to-1, even when the Allison was putting out its full power. Excess power means not only more speed...
Burdened with a lot of weight that Army pursuit ships do not need-catapult and arresting gear, a beefed-up tail for carrier service, flotation gear-the Vought-Sikorsky F4U still has a cruising radius of more than 1,000 miles, a service ceiling in excess of 30,000 feet. Fitted with the new 2,000-h.p. engine - in place of the 1,850-h.p. that now drives it-it will have still better performance...
...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...