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...field the 1,000th Lockheed Hudson bomber built for Britain was warming up, ready to take the air, famed Pilot Jimmy Mattern at the controls. Lady Halifax said: "May I say to you and all the good workers of Lockheed . . . the people of Britain will welcome the arrival of yet another Hudson. . . . And now your labor takes wings. Go, Jimmy Mattern, and God bless you." The plane streaked off for the Rockies, Canada, Britain and the war. Lord Halifax smiled; Lady Halifax seemed close to tears...
...pictures were rushed to a big port-complexioned Briton, Sir Richard Peirse, Chief of the Bomber Command. Knocking out his pipe and shutting off his notoriously favorite pipe dream-a dreadnought bomber with high enough ceiling, great enough speed and sure enough armament to make any fighter useless-Air Marshal Peirse set "interpretive experts" to work plotting the exact location of ships, number of planes necessary for a thorough job, other mechanical details. Then Sir Richard sat down with his staff and Fighter and Coastal Command liaison officers to discuss tactics: time and place of rendezvous, level of attack, number...
...breaks a major plane-building bottleneck: riveting points which can be reached from only one side. So troublesome have been these inaccessible points that plane designs have often been modified to avoid them, but there are still 800 in an all-metal pursuit ship, 10,000 in a large bomber. A skilled workman, with costly tools, has been able to set two to four old-fashioned rivets per minute. But, with fairly simple tools, almost anyone can set 15 to 20 explosive rivets...
...average U.S. citizen, this engine competition spells good enough news. Interested in the air-cooled v. liquid-cooled controversy only as a healthy contest, all he wants to see is U.S. planes that will fly faster, higher and farther than anything anyone else can make. In the bomber field, the U.S. is already there. Among the fighters, its P47 may be there, or nearly. At the great horsepower training table, in short, U.S. plane designers are getting plenty of soup, whatever the flavor...
...engines a month, has already prepared to convert all of its automobile facilities in Buffalo and Tonawanda to their manufacture. Other orders: To Ford, $140,000,000 for 4,807 Pratt & Whitneys (in addition to 4,236 already on order); to Chrysler, a $42,000,000 subcontract for Martin bomber parts; to Hudson, a $12,000,000 Martin subcontract. Detroit at last was on the way to filling its obvious wartime role: the nation's No. 1 Munitions City...