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...range reconnaissance and photographic work. But at the Fokker plant in Teterboro, N. J. a plane nearly identical was being completed with the utmost secrecy. Reporter Bruce Gould of the New York Evening Post, who inadvertently happened upon it while on another mission, reported it to be "[a] pursuit-bomber . . . long nosed . . . rakish . . . bristling with armament;" its two bulging engines giving it a "frightful deep-sea monster expression...
...would be over London dropping its bombs just ten minutes after it passed the English coast. Most combat planes now in use would take at least 16 minutes to climb 15,000 ft. from the ground. The Royal Air Force has at least one type of day bomber, the Hawker Hart with a secret steam-cooled engine, capable of a maximum speed of 187 m.p.h. So has France, so has Italy.* To counteract these speedy bombers British planemakers have designed four types of "interceptors," 200 m.p.h. single-seat fighters which can rise like rockets, climb...
Redland's chief casualty was Edward of Wales. In a Fairey 3-F fast bomber piloted by his personal pilot Squadron Leader David S. Don, H. R. H. went up to watch the fighting. In the afternoon he decided to change sides, approached the Blue headquarters of Air Marshal Sir Edward Leonard Ellington. It had been a poor week for fighting planes. A patrol of six fighters defending the Blue base saw a single red bomber approaching. Not recognizing the Prince's plane they dove at it with whoops of joy, raked it with imaginary machine guns...
...Navy's first accidents in fiscal 1931 occurred last week at Philadelphia?a freak crackup. Three flyers took off in a Martin bomber for parachute tests, with 200-lb. dummies secured in the bomb rack beneath the fuselage. About 100 ft. aloft, the parachute of one of the dummies worked loose, streamed aloft, was jerked full open by the wind. Down snapped the nose of the plane as if an anchor had suddenly been dropped. The short dive wrecked the ship, set it afire, seriously injured Lieut. Commander Oscar W. Erickson and his two assistants...
...swept up the bay over towered Manhattan. They flew in tight, three-plane V-formations which in turn formed larger Vs, a shining flock of metal hawks that filled the city's canyons with the hammering roar of war. At the head of the formation in a Martin bomber, constantly in radio touch with all his following and ordering their every maneuver, rode Lieut. Commander Alfred E. Montgomery, in charge of the flight. Behind him came Martin torpedo planes, sturdy Vought Corsairs, Curtiss Seahawks, Boeing fighters...