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...plunged gleefully back to the summer of 1943. Colonel Roosevelt, home from duty as operations officer of a photoreconnaissance group in the Mediterranean, had been ordered by the A.A.F.'s General Henry H. Arnold to recommend a new plane to replace the makeshift, reconverted P-38s and B-17s. (Why "Hap" Arnold picked Newcomer Roosevelt to do this job was not made clear.) Over the violent objections of General Echols and his boss, Barney Giles, chief of air staff, Elliott Roosevelt had insisted on the XF-II. "Hap" Arnold put through a $50 million contract for 101 of them...
...executive vice president of Seattle's Boeing Aircraft Co., as Canadair's new president. Unlike Hopkins, President West is no newcomer to Canada (he helped organize Trans-Canada Air Lines in 1937) or to plane making (he is credited with bossing Boeing production of half the B-17s and 70% of all the B-29s made for the U.S. during...
Boeing Aircraft Co., which made the war's biggest planes, also suffered one of its biggest ironies. Although its B-29s and B-17s carried the bulk of U.S. bombardment power, Boeing was hit harder by victory than any other plane maker. Within weeks after war's end, contract cancellations forced it to close its Seattle plant. Hope seemed to be grounded...
...Quonset huts and many of the more substantial installations have been pulled down and carried away to Panama. The broad macadamized fighter strip is now abandoned, and only our three visiting B-17s are visible beside the longer main strip. Soon there may be only the caretakers left. Dull, drab Seymour Island may shortly revert to the goats, and the archipelago itself to the naturalists...
...radio, circled it round the field. Riding with its two hands-off pilots were two volunteers: a male and a female correspondent. The landing was rough, close to a crackup, but the Air Forces considered the test successful. On Crossroads Day, it announced, it would fly four unmanned B-17s into the radioactive cloud above the atomic explosion, attempt to collect great bagsful of cloud matter. All the "drones" were considered expendable, for the cloud's effect upon planes was still unknown...