Army gets 500 mile an hour plane

Title (Dublin Core): Army gets 500 mile an hour plane
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Airplanes and Zeppelins
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): Title: Army gets 500 mile an hour plane
extracted text (Extract Text): SEVEN hundred swift, fast-climbing in-
terceptor-pursuit ships like the one
above are now being built for the U. S.
Army Air Corps. They are the new Lockheed
P-38's, powered by twin twelve-cylinder,
1,150-horsepower liquid-cooled Allison en-
eines and capable of more than 500 miles
an hour. The plane has a 52-foot wing
spread, a tricycle landing gear, and multiple
machine-gun armament. The ship is a de-
velopment of the XP-38 flown by Capt. Ben-
jamin S. Kelsey last year from Burbank,
Calif, to New York in seven hours and
forty-five minutes on part throttle,
Language (Dublin Core): Eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1921-03
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 138, n. 3 1941
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 55
Rights (Dublin Core): Public domain
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core): Sami Akbiyik