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Fashions in fighting planes have changed since the War. Nearly all nations have gone over from the once popular biplane type to the monoplane. But the U. S. government has continued satisfied with the proven fighting performance of its Vought Corsairs, Curtiss Hawks and Falcons, Boeing Navy F4-B's and Army P12's, all biplanes. Last week Boeing Airplane Co., supplanting Curtiss as chief purveyor of single-seater fighters to the government, announced its latest experimental handiwork: a high-wing, cantilever, all-metal, parasol type of fighting monoplane. Experts in touch with Air Corps destinies foresaw...
...earnings of $8,300,000, or about 50% of the total earnings expected for the entire industry. Jubilantly, President Frederick Brant Rentschler told stockholders of this success, and of $5,400,000 new orders since Jan. 1. Money-making U. A. T. subsidiaries include Pratt & Whitney (motors) ; Chance Vought, Sikorsky, Boeing (ships...
Battle Plane Prejudice. To the desk of Comrade Litvinov in the Kremlin came intelligence, last week, that a ship had just cleared from New York, bearing to the Chinese Government the second consignment of a $1,000,000 order for battle planes of the Vought Corsair type used by the U. S. Navy, built at Long Island City. Soon these planes might be bombing Soviet villages near the Sino-Russian frontier. Naturally the U. S. State Department was not responsible for the shipment, but it may have prejudiced Comrade Litvinov as he ruffled his copy of Statesman Stimson...
...United the deal looked wise. It lines up one of the best planes in the world with other United subsidiaries-Boeing, Vought, Hamilton Metalplane, Pratt & Whitney motors, Pacific Air Transport, Boeing Air Transport, Stout Airlines.* Whether Curtiss Flying Service, a subsidiary of United's competitor Curtiss-Wright Corp., will continue to sell Sikorsky planes was last week unannounced...
...Chance Vought William B. Leeds