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...blurbs and other notes from the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, the papers of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, and a collection of photographs of archaeological items have also found security in the "Inferno" stacks. Poor-paper books and those in shabby condition are labelled "XP" and put in the Cage for purposes of preservation...
...West Pointer (1923) and onetime assistant chief of experimental engineering at Wright Field, he became (1942) the first U.S. armed forces test pilot to fly a jet-powered plane-the pioneer XP-59. Saw active duty as commander of the Twelfth Air Force's 63rd Fighter Wing in North Africa. Appointed commandant of Wright Field's Air Force Institute of Technology (1948). Married and has two children...
Dream Car. Buick's experimental "dream car," the two-seater convertible XP-300, was unveiled at Chicago's auto show last week. Designed by General Motors' Chief Engineer Charles A. Chayne, the car has an aluminum body only 39 inches high at the cowl (53.4 in. with the top up), blue leather seats, safety belts, padded crash board, hydraulic engine hood and jacks. The engine is a supercharged 300-h.p. V-8 which weighs only 500 lbs. (250 lbs. less than Buick's current 152-h.p. engine), and runs at high speeds on a mixture...
...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...