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Word: wings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Zemke: Get way up and try again. If you can't shake it down, you'll have to jump. Be careful. Put your landing gear handle in down position, do a bank on the left wing and snap it over to the right. Let me get a little ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Conversation Piece | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Like chicken? Grab a wing: Let's dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Jabberwocky | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...Allied Air Force, in its new A36 fighter-bombers, sprang a particularly nasty surprise on the enemy during the pre-invasion cleanup. An adaptation of the North American Mustang (P-51) the A36 is a 400-mile-an-hour single seater, equipped with dive brakes and wing bomb racks. It functions as a dive or glide bomber or as a low level strafing ship, specializing in such small but worthwhile targets as truck convoys, trains and power stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF SICILY: Overseas Operations | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Billy stumped the country for parts orders. By the time he got his first big one - for wing ribs for Curtiss P-40s - he had found enough unused machinery to handle it: mechanical presses that used to make auto fenders, shears that used to stamp out license plates at Kentucky's La Grange Reformatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Rosy Reynolds | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...plant is fully equipped this summer, Reynolds' capacity for parts will be six times its current rate-and today's figure is 40 times what it was a year ago. Current production includes some 70,000 different parts for 16 different planemakers from rivet washers to wing sections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Rosy Reynolds | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

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