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Carl Ward, president of Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp., had good reason for his feelings. One of the great and immediate U.S. aviation needs of 1942 is skilled bomber crews. Without bomber crews there can be no second front, no 1942 or early-1943 offensive. And the plane Carl Ward saw in the making was the answer-a bomber-crew trainer that can be produced at flood speed. More, it is an allwood plane, draining off no great quantities of vital materials...
...could be fashioned into flying machines as big as houses, if necessary. In wooden-wing planes the cautious Army had contented itself with fleets of Ward's little primary trainers. Now the Army has asked Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. to make big, wood-veneer, twin-engine planes for bomber-crew training-as fast, as maneuverable as many twin-engine bombers on the war fronts. They will be complete, with bombs in their belly bays and guns at gun stations. Plastic-and-wood planes had come...
Fairchild's process, patented by a subsidiary, Duramold Aircraft Corp., does not greatly differ from others. Boeing Aircraft Co. is also making wood bomber-crew trainers; its planes contain more fabric...
Back in the U.S. last fortnight, after escaping to Australia by PT boat and bomber. Correspondent Floyd exploded over a new headline: VOLCANIC BLAST TERRIFIES JAPAN. It was about an eruption of Mt. Asama. As an ex-staffman on Tokyo's then-U.S.-owned Japan Advertiser, he knew Mt. Asama was in a sparsely settled region and "could do a double-Vesuvius" without exciting the Japs...
...planemakers tapped and tinkered for the carriage trade. Even with billions of war orders on the books, the aircraft makers have only partly changed their methods. One reason is that the Army and Navy won't completely freeze designs. Even after the design of his own B-25 bomber had been "frozen," said Kindelberger, 15,000 blueprints were changed, 4,000 parts were completely redesigned. Snapped he: "Talk about freezing plane designs is as silly as freezing the design of a flintlock rifle when the enemy is turning out a Garand...