Word: bomber
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...typical message to the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics: a report from a patrol-bomber squadron that the windshield wipers on its Lockheed P2V planes did not work because the windstream lifted them off the glass. The report went down through the aircraft division to the Lockheed patrol plane desk officer, headed through the airborne equipment division until in the aircraft systems design section it found a man who specialized in nothing but wipers. A copy went through the P2V maintenance section of the airframes structures unit of the aircraft maintenance division. Final action will be taken...
Though K-F lost $13,260,193 last year making automobiles, the company now has an estimated $500 million in defense contracts for Fairchild C-119 "Flying Boxcars," Chase Aircraft (49% Kaiser-owned) C-123 assault transports, Wright aircraft engines and components for Lockheed's P2V antisubmarine patrol bomber...
...Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, an aging (37) shadow of the Brown Bomber, a sixth-round knockout (a right to the belly, a left hook to the head) over Lee Savold, 35; in Manhattan...
...fields will take a sizable area of arable soil, and French politicians, their eyes on the farm vote, are reluctant to do anything about getting the necessary land. The first U.S. air reinforcements, the 116th Fighter Bomber Wing, due to land in France by July, will probably find no bases available there, may have to go to Britain instead where construction of new fields, able to handle jets, is well under...
Pilot Haven idled his four piston engines, but the B-50, instead of slowing up, flew even faster, on nothing but the power of the whining metal cigar. The bomber's air-speed indicator edged up to 370 m.p.h. Over Bangor, Me., an F-86 jet fighter, part of the air-raid interceptor defense, streaked up through the clouds, swept in close to investigate the B-50's strange, roaring belly...