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...light, and feels each one with her fingers. There must be no tiny scratch or rough spot-to wreck a plane, cost a life. In Ford's great bomber hatchery at Willow Run a woman flyer (Mary Elizabeth Von Mach) inspects motors for the big B-24s. In San Diego a young war widow strings numbered wires of an electrical subassembly, attaching the end of each to its proper terminal. In Dallas a bridge champion's wife assembles hydraulic devices which raise & lower landing gear. All her salary goes to war bonds. In Flint, Mich., a Polish girl...
There will be more than token proof. U.S. production today is heavily weighted with four-motored bombers-Flying For tresses and swift Consolidated B-24s. In the 185,000-plane goal for 1942-43 set by President Roosevelt there will be a greater proportion of heavy bombers-more heavy bombers than any nation ever built before...
...What first catches the layman's eye in the Cat's yard is not the wide-winged PBYs with their tapered tails, but the graceful, powerful forms, of immense four-motored bombers resting on tricycle landing gears. These are the newest brothers of the Cat: the B-24s. The British call them Liberators. These big bombers are 4,000 pounds bigger than Boeing's famed Flying Fortresses. The B-24 has already followed the Cat into the war in Europe...
Flight Operations. Consolidated's B-24s are now picked up at the factory by pilots of the Army's Ferrying Command for delivery to Air Forces commands or to the British. But the boats are delivered by Consolidated's own Flight Operations. Flying boss of F.O. is a huge-boned, broad-faced airman named Russ Rogers, who in 1939 was flying a PBY (the Cuba) for Standard Oil Heir Richard Archbold in New Guinea when Rube Fleet decided to set up his own delivery service. Frank Learman, traffic manager...
...making history in the Navy, and Consolidated was beginning to fatten. Today, with its $750,000,000 backlog, for all its mighty rushing river of production, Consolidated's San Diego plant is not enough. A factory is being built at Fort Worth, Tex. to turn out more B-24s, under Consolidated management; another at Tulsa, Okla., to be operated by Douglas Aircraft...