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Brewster Aircraft Company, based on Long Island, was one of the more
troubled American defense
contractors of the Second World War. Its only original aircraft design,
the F2A Buffalo, has been
almost universally reviled by aircraft historians. Brewster also
manufactured a Corsair
variant, the F3A, but only 735 came off the production line. The
company's productivity was so poor that wild rumors circulated early in
the war that the assembly line had been infiltrated by German saboteurs. The company collapsed with the cancellation of
the Corsair contract at the end of the war.
References
Time (1942-5-4; accessed 2009-2-17)
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