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MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1939: Aviation (8989 words) |
 | In the spring of 1939 the manufacturing industry was operating at about 65 per cent of capacity on a one-shift basis. |
| Among the orders for accessories during the fall of 1939 were: $34,000 to Bendix and Kollsman for compasses; $20,000 to Sperry for gyro instruments; $100,000 to Pioneer for oxygen regulator assemblies; $205,000 to Pump Engineering for vacuum pumps and many others. |
| As of October 1, 1938 and 1939 payrolls jumped from $17,600,000 to $25,800,000; employees from 11,850 to 20,250 with an estimated 60,000 by the summer of 1940 in the Los Angeles area alone. |
| ninemsn Encarta - Military Aircraft (2745 words) |
| Within six years leadership in the new technology had passed to Europe, where government leaders supported aviation through the sponsorship of races and competitions, subsidized programmes of research and development, the purchase of aircraft, and the establishment of the earliest military flying units. |
| Soon after the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, pioneer military aviators demonstrated their value as aerial scouts and observers, although not, perhaps, to the complete satisfaction of members of the high commands, who had learned most of their tactics and strategy 40 years earlier. |
| Private companies had been producing aircraft since the early days of aviation, and names like Nieuport, Sopwith, and Fokker became famous, their aircrafts’ relative merits tested against one another in combat. |
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