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King of the Bombers. Since the beginning of World War II, Boeing has been undisputed king of the bomber builders. But in the 38 years since William Edward Boeing, a wealthy lumberman's son, founded the company as a hobby just outside Seattle, Boeing has also built everything from gnatlike fighters to giant flying boats, and can claim enough pioneering firsts to satisfy any planemaker...
...eight months, Mendès worked in the underground, adopting a pipe and a mustache as a disguise, then made his way to London to join De Gaulle's Free French. He immediately applied to fly again, was trained as a navigator in the Free French bomber group. "He turned all colors before going on missions, but he always went and he volunteered when he could," says a friend. Mendès fretted about bombing France, finally concluded that if he did not do it, others would, and perhaps not aim so carefully...
...moon's shadow raced over Greenland, it was waylaid by Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Britain's Astronomer Royal and lord of Herstmonceux Castle, now the Royal Observatory. Sir Harold chased the shadow from Greenland to Iceland in an R.A.F. bomber, prolonging his view of totality by 22 seconds as he looked for daylight aurorae. He saw none...
Unlike Douglas' new A4D attack bomber, which was announced as soon as it rolled out (TIME, June 14), Lockheed's new bantam has been flying secretly since February, was in the air exactly one year after the prototype contract was signed. Though Lockheed says that the plane can be produced 2½ times as fast, at half the cost of North American's F-100, Lockheed scouts the idea that it is either underarmed or stripped down. Because of new rockets, each of which packs the killing power of half a dozen World War II machine guns...
...cost of their gadget-heavy sisters. Says Heinemann: "That increases this nation's potential by just that much-there are simply a lot fewer man-hours and a lot less material going into each A4D." The Navy is so impressed that it has already ordered Douglas' new bomber into production though its first flight is still weeks away...