Four auto starter solenoids pop the tugboat clutch and 3000 pounds of hot rod is fired through quarter-mile at over 180 mph on gas. Anybody who has been around the drag strips long knows that /I ...

Not the one that lived under your bed when you were a child, but Green Monster #5, one of the Arfons brothers', Allison-powered Monsters that terrorized the nation's dragstrips in the mid and late ...

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General Motors Corp., long harassed by controversy over its Allison aircraft engine, last week distributed a booklet packaged in heavy cellophane, and titled: Airplane Power (with special reference to ...

In 1945, preliminary design began on Allison's first turboprop engines. One was the T40 (Allison Model 500), which consisted of two T38 power sections driving co-axial contrarotating propellers ...