Show New Pratt Whitney C Engine Adds Punch to Army and Navy Fighting Planes Advanced Double Wasp to Give Thunderbolt Corsair Hellcat Hellcat Greater Performance KANSAS CITY Mo Army Army and Na last month joined forces in partially unveiling the newest weapon in the battle of production j It was the three and ont one half million squa square foot engine plant here one of the largest hithe in hi inthe inthe the world operated without profit or loss Joss by Pratt Whitney Aircraft Corporation o of Missouri f fSr r the United States Navy In this which the Navy called its No 1 priority pl plant t is being built builta a newly de cl devel Pratt Whitney engine described by Rear Admiral Dewitt Dewitt- C. C Ramsey chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics as a must for victor victory It is the C model of th the Pr Pratt tt Whitney R 2800 Double Wasp ranking High Army and Navy officers officers' stressed the importance of the thc increased horsepower in the new engine Thunderbolt to Get C Engine Pointing out that air power is world power Brigadier General Edwin S. S Perrin declared that it is dear to many of us lIS that horsepower is The new C engine he revealed will wilt be installed in the Republic Thunderbolt which already has hung up such a glorious record with an earlier model of the Double Wasp The new Thunderbolt with the new engines will take the measure of anything the enemy can produce in the near future he said Admiral Ramsey emphasized the solemn responsibility of maintaining a consistent technical lead over oyer our adversaries The TheR R 1 C 2800 lIe he declared cannot be matched inthe in i in the weight power-weight ratio by any products I I. I know of at the present time that may flow from the production resources of Mr HitJe Hitler and Mr Tojo Norman Normally we rate the C Cen engine engine en en- gine at 2100 horsepower But we have found that we get greatly increased horsepower by using water injection developed by Pratt Whitney Aircraft j j Earmarked For Corsair and Hellcat I IThe The Ad Admiral iral said that every time he picked d up tip an airplane production schedule he found more air airplanes lanes depending on that engine ft Ii 1 am not at liberty to tell you all the lighting aircraft for which this engine is M he said 1 I General Perrin has already given you a clue duc to the Army's keen interest in the C 2800 Perhaps you can get a a. general idea of the Navys Navy's interest when shien I tell you that such famous types as the Vought Corsair CorSi and Grumman Hellcat fighters already the scourges of the thc Pacific will reach eg e greater heights of performance with this new new ne Double Wasp engine Others so new that I Iam Iam Iam am not at liberty to disclose names or identifying identify j j jing ing symbols also will be powered by you engine 1 Kansas C. C City ty and its p people ople were were singled o out t i for praise in undertaking a project of this size in an area which is not the home of precision tool work any more than 11 New En England land is the home of acre wheat farms an and great packing houses Th The e plant is scheduled to go into full production about a year ear from irom now when it should reach c ch j 1 ja a monthly output of almost three million j horsepower J j To achieve this goal more manpower must 1 be obtained Approximately new ein j em are needed every da day until are many more thousands building these engines at Kansas City's mammoth new plant |