Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Like chicken? Grab a wing: Let's dance...
...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...
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...
...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...