Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-03-14 | Page 3 | [Illegible] S. Firm Builds Super Bomber

I I FIRM H BUILDS SUPER BOMBER EW W YORK March 14 INS UNS- INS INSton ton ion of a new super dive- dive r capable of traveling eS a an hour faster than any er plane of its type in the announced Friday by dette S. S Wright vice t mf of the Wright Curtiss-Wright corpo- corpo o 5 he plane designed for the Unit Unit- States Stes navy is able to carry elas Tas as many heavy bombs as existing dive-bomber dive fly twice r arras aFas ijas any present models and aln in in flight four and a half longcr Wright declared r to operate from air air- on extended scouting bombing missions the plane Described described by Wright as the thet t powerful dive-bomber dive ever evert t n America or abroad It with ith a 1700 h. p. p engine Heavier Armor right gl t s said id that the plane ites unusually heavy arma arma- Itt ius achieving greater fire er than any other single single engine engine al it plane plane named the Curtis 1 l carries its bomb load in- in Instead linstead of outside the fuse- fuse thus us eliminating wind drag wings fold upward to storage storage on shipboard and are ared d designed signed to make it highly 1 All major controls rate ate te hydraulically instead of h two two place pace metal all low mid mid- monoplane the ship was deed deed de de- ed edat at the Buffalo N N. Y plant he hel Wright Curtiss-Wright Curtiss- Curtiss t corporation n as a's largest producers of b bat t planes a ae e outPut Possible ie to plane is designed for rapid production A scale large out of these dive-bombers dive ht said will begin as soon as asniw new new plane factory now being ted at at- Port Columbus Colum Colum- Ohio is completed l estimated workers will in the new Ohio plant ht disclosed Two other new Wright Liss-Wright factories are being at St. St Louis and 1