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Great Britain, in accord with Anthony Eden's dictum to act tough, has lately adopted the Fascist strategy of muscle-making. Most effective display of bulging biceps was the dispatch of hundreds of bombers on nonstop trips to distant French destinations, flights which more than equaled the mileage to Berlin-as British newspapers were careful to point out. Responsible for the flights to France was Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt, head of the Bomber Command. Tall, spare, methodical, he is a practiced muscle flexer, for he has commanded the R. A. F. in Iraq and India...
...long row of hangars and shops and a broad cluster of brick laboratory buildings. This is the heart and brain of the Air Corps, the home base of its Matériel Division, where every item of equipment used, from a gauge needle to a 15-ton bomber, is examined and tested before purchase; where its advance thinking and performance (blind flight, stratosphere, automatic control, radio research) are done; where its medical studies are pursued. Here come all bids for the $337,000,000 expansion program voted in April and June by Congress, which is to bring the Air Corps...
...works for United Aircraft, good friend of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Newsmen still found lacking, however, publicity for one phase of Air Corps activity more dramatic than any other. Lest it seem too warlike, the Corps is not allowed by the War Department to publicize the extreme accuracy which its bombers have attained. They now can guarantee to smack their targets as precisely from 28,000 feet as they do from 8,000. With their proven flight range, they constitute a first-line of defense against enemy war-boats far at sea off either coast from bases far inland...
...first flight of her long-planned transatlantic mail service. Three hours later she put in briefly at the Foynes, Eire marine base, rose again trailing a weighted line for a refueling maneuver never before attempted in commercial transport service. Above her silvery-sleek spine flew an ugly, dark-snouted bomber converted into an air-going tanker. At some 500 feet the tanker's ejector flung out a grapnel. It hooked around the Caribou's line, skidded along to the tip, locked fast with a corresponding gripper. With the electric potentials of both planes equalized to prevent static sparks...
With its factories and offices only a two-hour bomber hop from Nazi air bases, British industry has plenty to think about. One thing it is thinking about is how to induce aging members of boards of directors to get physically fit to replace younger men called to the colors...