Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Current prices: Ford, Wasp-powered $50,000; Wright, J-6 powered $40,000; Fokker, Wasp-powered $54,500; Wright, J-6 powered...
Last week, in response to a Navy call for bombing craft, Curtiss presented its new Wasp-powered XF8C-4 biplane at Mitchell Field, L. I. Testpilot William Crosswell put the ship through gruelling 7,000-ft. vertical dives, throttle wide open, levelling off suddenly at 300 m. p. h. His observer was taken so ill that a substitute was necessary...
...incomplete research into wing construction. At extreme speeds, a monoplane wing is subject to "flutter," or rhythmic oscillation, which leads to rapid destruction of the member involved. The new Boeing model has satisfactorily overcome this difficulty, performs better than its biplane cousin. Equipped with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp motor, supercharged to develop 475 h. p., it cruises at 165 m. p. h., has a high speed well in excess of 200 m. p. h. It carries two machine guns shooting through the propeller, a bomb-rack for a few small "eggs...
Speed with weight: Lee Schoenhair, at Jacksonville, Fla., flew in a Lockheed Vega (Pratt & Whitney Wasp motor), with 500 kilograms added weight; 100 kilometers at 185.4 m.p.h.: 500 kilometers at 171.2 m. p. h.; 1,000 kilometers at 152.7 m. p. h. Also flew with 1,000 kilograms added weight; 100 kilometers at 175.9 m. p. h.; 500 kilometers at 168.1 m. p. h.; 1,000 kilometers...