Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-11-10 | Page 6 | K. C. Hits Million Horsepower

K C. C Hits Million Horsepower KANSAS CITY Mo More More than one million horsepower in m Double Wasp C en engines engines engines en- en gines and power sections and spare parts rolled off the production lines of Pratt Whitney Aircraft Corporation of Missouri in m October just dust 10 months after the first engine was completed at the big Kansas Kamas City plant Company officials said that new records would have to be set every month from now until next August to meet Navy schedules for forthe forthe the horsepower 2100 engines Behind the million mimon horsepower mark lies liesa a a. dramatic story When ground was broken on July 4 1942 the plant s site te was a peaceful cornfield Now it is covered co with one of the largest and most modern aircraft engine plants in in the world with 85 acres under one roof Millions of dollars worth of precision machinery has been installed More than men from the Missouri Valle Valley have ha been transformed into well trained trained foremen and supervisors and other middle westerners western western- ers most of whom had ne never previously worked with tools have ha become skilled operators operators operators oper oper- The fhe tooling tooting and production difficulties incident to building a wholly new t type pc of en engine engine engine en- en gine had to be ironed out before the big plant could swing into high gear The Missouri plant not only fabric fabricates complete engines but also builds all the power sections for the Double Wasp C engines built by the parent Pratt Whitney Aircraft division of United Aircraft Corporation at East Hartford Connecticut