The B-29 Superfortress: Dodge plays a major role - Allpar Forums
WEBNov 16, 2020 · The B-29 bomber was one of the most famous and impressive large aircraft of World War II; they were bigger and faster, better balanced, and perhaps tougher than the B-17 "Flying Fortress" or B-24 "Liberator," always equipped with pressurized cabins and used up into mid-1953. The B-29's biggest moment was …
Chrysler’s Short-Lived Chicago Plant | Allpar Forums
WEBNov 16, 2020 · After Pearl Harbor, the Army Air Corps pushed the B-29 bomber program forward; needing a new source of Wright Cyclone engines for the big planes, they turned to Chrysler. While Wright engineers scoffed at the idea of an automaker being able to build airplane engines at all, much less in the quantities and at the prices Keller suggested, the ...
Chrysler Military History - Allpar Forums
WEBNov 16, 2020 · B-29 Superfortress bomber: Chrysler redesigned the Wright Cyclone engine to make it more durable, cutting the cost of the engines in half while saving energy and metal. Building tanks and the "arsenal of democracy:" Chrysler helps to engineer and build the M3, Sherman, and Pershing tanks, voluntarily giving up all profits
Nash at war: 1944: the end in sight - Allpar Forums
WEBNov 16, 2020 · War Drive got under way with a reminder that a B-29 bomber cost $600,000, and an M-4 tank cost $67,417. Salaries for the estimated 12 million men and women in the armed forces had to be paid.62 With Thanksgiving just around the corner, Buehler's Meats, located at 612 58th Street, had something that folks had not seen for
The DeSoto-Warren Plant of Chrysler Corporation (and...
WEBNov 16, 2020 · The Air Force moved the B-29 from GM's Fisher Body, in Cleveland, and assigned to Chrysler the pressurized nose section, leading edges, and engine cowlings. The Superfortress nose was too large for the plant; DeSoto had to remove some of the bracing from the roof girders and dug trenches in the floor, and even then, the nose had to stay between ...
Chrysler and radar: the SCR584 radar-mounted anti-aircraft guns
WEBNov 16, 2020 · The system produced by Chrysler Corporation was named SCR-584 and was teamed with a heavy anti-aircraft battery of four 90mm guns, a British-invented IFF (identification, friend or foe) unit, a power source, and an M-9 gun director. The scanning pedestal or antenna mount was officially named Signal Corps Pedestal-MP-61-B.
The background to the atomic bomb | Allpar Forums
WEBJan 14, 2021 · No one seemed to be paying attention, especially the American military establishment. The engine that would power the B-29 that carried the weapons to Japan had been authorized and tested since 1936. Initial studies for the B-29 were proposed by Boeing to the Army in early 1938. Boeing continued the study with its own money.
Fly Chrysler to the Moon: the Saturn Rockets | Allpar Forums
WEBNov 16, 2020 · The end of Apollo flights came with the ocean landing of Apollo 17 on December 19, 1972. After being to the moon and back, safely, six times, (except Apollo 13), it became blasé to the American people. Chrysler had fulfilled its original contract, building 15 of the huge Stage One of the Saturn V.
Dodge Military Trucks and the Burma Road in World War II
WEBNov 16, 2020 · Roosevelt was the first to aid China, giving it $100 million. China was brought into focus by the weapon system which had never been flown, but was then under full production: the Boeing-designed B-29 Superfortress. Proposed in September 1939, the Superfortress was the long range weapon that America needed.
Chrysler lifts NASA: the next step in the rocket story
WEBNov 16, 2020 · Chrysler designed and built the next Saturn Rocket, the Saturn IB. It too had a cluster of 8 H-1 rocket motors, but they had been up rated to 200K pounds of thrust each, giving the IB 1.6 million pounds of thrust. Chrysler built, and NASA, flew nine of the Saturn IB without any failures.