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...British battleship takes 840,000 U. S. gallons of fuel oil (enough to heat a house for 350 years) at a single loading; a four-motored bomber flying from London to Berlin and back takes 4,560 gallons of gasoline (enough to drive an automobile 75,000 miles...
...prize Ford national-defense exhibit was not at River Rouge. It was at Willow Run (near Ypsilanti), 17 miles away. There, on a stretch of flat Michigan landscape, Ford is building its $47,000,000 bomber factory...
Cautious Joe Hartson would not compare No. 170 with the Big, but he gave a few figures that were comparisons in themselves. She is precisely as powerful (8,000 h.p.). Her wingspread, a vast 200 feet, is 12 ft. less than Douglas' bomber. She is 117 feet long (132 for the 6-19). Newsmen estimated that the top of her tail was 30 feet off the floor, which would make it about ten feet short of B-IQ'S. Joe Hartson said 170 carried better than 10,000 gallons of gasoline (6-19 capacity, 11,000), but refused...
Boeing Aircraft Co. last week test-flew its new B-17E bomber, a better-armed, slicker version of the Flying Fortress (B-17Ds) with which the R.A.F. is now bombing Europe from heights over 30,000 feet-too high to be hit by ack-ack, or to be reached by most German pursuit planes...
...inexperienced; P39 (Bell's Airacobra pursuit which has several rare features, engine behind the pilot), strange, swift, mysterious; the prefix Z (for obsolete), over age 28; O-47 (North American observation plane), a girl from Dorothy Parker's couplet-wears glasses; B-19 (Douglas' huge bomber), stylish stout...