Word: xp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good grey New York Times appeared a picture of Curtiss-Wright's new XP-55 experimental fighter (see U.S. AT WAR). The Times ran a five-line headline to explain solemnly why the new backside-to plane is called the Ascender...
...biggest shout went up when a pilot ripped across the field in next year's airplane, an XP-46, leaner and trimmer than its blood brothers. Still experimental, the XP-46 is Curtiss-Wright's bid for speeds above 400 miles an hour. Secret in design, it is reputedly chalking up fast performances with an old Allison...
Last spring many an American Airlines pilot, stopping for passengers at Buffalo, N. Y., sunburned the roof of his mouth watching the test flights of a new pursuit ship that the U. S. Army Air Corps called XP-39. Slim as a lance, it ripped across the field faster than anything they had ever seen, faded to a dot against the sky before the thunder of its exhaust had echoed off the hangar walls. And when it came home to roost, at the hangar of Bell Aircraft Corp., it waddled up to the apron on three wheels with its tail...