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...airliner was not violating the established practice of flying at 9,000 ft. Whether the bomber was violating any rule was a matter of conjecture: bombers like Lieut. Wilson's are not supposed to fly above 3,500 ft., but no one ever has specified whether 3,500 ft. means above sea level or above terrain. Lieut. Wilson was placed under military arrest, charged with manslaughter...
...task was to build a bomber and fighter force in a theater that was considered secondary to Britain, yet covered far more territory and required a greater complexity of operations. Tedder's men had to support the light vessels of Admiral Harwood, attack Axis warships in the Mediterranean, hunt submarines in the Persian Gulf. Tedder's men had to bomb cities and airdromes. Tedder's men had to fight over desert, where airdromes were mobile and maintenance was a special and involved problem. More than that, Tedder's men had to learn to subordinate their spectacular...
Airpower at Sea. Fleet-minded Mr. Baldwin found the navy operating long-range, army-type heavy bombers from land bases, using its carrier-based dive-bombers, torpedo planes and scouting planes fully and skillfully, and the Army Air Forces cooperating closely and well at the fighting fronts. But: "We have not yet learned how to integrate the [naval] gun with the bomb and torpedo, how best to use surface ships with planes. . . . Neither the carrier alone nor the heavy bomber alone will win this war. Nor will airpower alone or seapower alone. . . . The lesson of the Pacific war is that...
...Britain's fast, agile, twin Rolls-Royce Mosquito bomber has a wingspread of 54 ft. (comparable to the U.S. P-38 fighter). It carries four 20-mm. cannon and four machine guns, is used largely for daylight raids. The plane's wooden fuselage, designed to conserve Britain's metal supply, has under some circumstances proved less vulnerable to gunfire than light metal...
...Germany's new Heinkel (H-177) is her first four-motored bomber designed as such (the Ju-Sg and Focke-Wulf Kurier were militarized transports). Its most distinctive feature: it has only two propellers, with two liquid-cooled (1,200-h.p.) engines geared to each propeller. The 177 is larger than the Flying Fortress, is almost as fast (about 300 m.p.h.). The Henschel-129, a twin-engined attack plane, is the Germans' answer to the Russian Stormovik. The 129 has a speed of 275 m.p.h., can carry 770 Ib. of bombs, carries a 37-mm. cannon...