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Topics have ranged from the spiritual and economic future of Britain to the flight of the house fly. A bomber-command pilot stirred up a national crisis in entomology by asking "How does a fly land on a ceiling? Does it loop the loop, or what?" This was a poser to all the experts, including Professor Huxley, and the more they thought about it the less sure they became. That night, in pubs all over England, flies were shooed zealously toward ceilings, fly-watchers argued long...
...Whether or not they are using this Frenchman, the Axis has plenty of ways to communicate ferry-bomber take-offs from Natal: a Lati radio, a Condor radio, two commercial telegraph companies...
...example of meteorologists' share in defense, Brooks said, is the study of climate of potential air fields for the "bomber ferry," which may open future expansion for peace-time commercial transatlantic flying...
Britain's Air Ministry had waited a long time for favorable weather to strike deep into Germany and Occupied Europe. One night the weather seemed just right: not too good to expose the flights to antiaircraft on the coast, not too bad to prevent accurate bombing. The Bomber Command dispatched more than 500 bombers to blast towns from Norway to southern Italy. New heavy Halifaxes, Stirlings, Wellingtons and Whitleys, loaded with Britain's powerful new bombs, sought out Berlin for special treatment...
...little ships. They are whoppers, all of them. Each represents thousands of hours of labor, each is a mighty ship of war. In the three big final assembly buildings, they come off the lines at a rate (military secret) of so many a day; no longer, as big bomber production was once appraised, at so many a month...