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...Seventy-five B-29s, the complement of the Fifteenth Air Force's 22nd and 92nd Bomber Wings, left California and Washington last week to join the Far East Bomber Command. The first contingent of 30 planes passed through Honolulu on July...
...Line. In Seattle last week, Boeing, with the biggest military backlog of all ($366 million), was concentrating on the B-47 medium jet bomber...
North American Aviation in Los Angeles, the U.S. had assigned $284 million, partly for 55 models of the first airplane specifically designed to carry an atomic bomb-the carrier-based AJ1 jet-assisted attack bomber. For production of the Air Force's long-range B-36 bomber, Consolidated Vultee had $250 million in Government orders. Lockheed had the fast F94 on the assembly line (see cut) as part of a $225 million backlog. A jet-powered fighter, the F94 has search radar housed in its ball-like plastic nose, can seek out and destroy enemy aircraft approaching through thick...
...winning a pair of D.F.C.s, Sergeant Kuroki came home-where he could have stayed, had he liked. Instead, he volunteered as a gunner on a B-29 in the Pacific theater, had to pull a few strings to get the job because he was a Nisei. In a bomber christened Honorable Sad Saki, Kuroki flew 28 missions more, including strikes on Tokyo and Yokohama ("my mother's home town"); he was the first Nisei to win a D.F.C. in the Pacific. Back home again, Kuroki assigned himself a "59th mission": a quiet, sense-making fight against race prejudice...
...this time, the power is so great that bomber's regular engines have to be throttled down. When conditions are right, in fact, the engines can be stopped entirely and their propellers feathered. The single jet takes over and, unaided keeps the great bomber aloft...