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...large enough to bridge the gap. Since January, planemakers have turned out only 145 multi-engined transports for the airlines and the saturation point is already at hand. To keep their heads above water, manufacturers have switched to new sidelines. Douglas is now making aluminum dinghies as well as bomber frames. Bell has gone into metal furniture and gasoline engines; Curtiss-Wright turns out textile spindles and film projectors. Even those companies still making money are having trouble keeping skilled labor crews and engineering staffs together, are trimming their sails for the day when present backlogs...
Died. Roy A. Chadwick, 54, designer of the Lancaster, the R.A.F.'s highly successful World War II heavy bomber; in a take-off crash during a test of the Avro Tudor II, his design for a new long-range British transport; near Woodford, England...
...took off in the converted Douglas A26 bomber from Chicago's Douglas Airport at 12:53 p.m. E.S.T. Thursday. With him was that piece of Winnie Mae's fabric. Soon he was in rough weather...
...flying schools, more than 300 private planes and some 35 freight-flying lines at his field. No matter how harebrained their plans, Wehran is willing to let the freight flyers set up shop at his field. Some ex-Navy pilots flew in a folding-wing torpedo bomber a fortnight ago. In delivering freight, they plan to fold the wings, run the plane through the streets to their destination...
This week, in the interest of self-knowledge and with an approving nod from the Department of National Defense, Canada set out to look more closely at itself-particularly at the relatively unknown north. From Ottawa's Rockcliffe Airport, a Lancaster bomber, carrying cameras, thousands of feet of film and a crew of seven, took off for Churchill, in northern Manitoba. Other Royal Canadian Air Force detachments have been assigned to photograph Canada's uncharted wildernesses from the eastern slopes of the Rockies to the tundra wastes of the Northwest Territories...