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...fitting that should have been 12/32s of an inch thick, but which was carelessly machined down to less than 2/32s caused the glider tragedy at St. Louis three weeks ago (TIME, Aug. 9). So announced the War Department last week, after suspending two civilian inspectors and grounding about 100 gliders like the one that killed St. Louis' mayor, the president of the glider-making company and eight others...
...lacked a jig or automatic stop mechanism. An overrushed inspector tossed out some of the faulty parts; some he passed without tests. The fitting joined the right wing strut to the fuselage. Once it was welded into place, its weakness was hidden from final assembly inspections. But when the glider cut loose from the tow plane on its maiden flight, new stresses snapped the too-thin steel. The craft plummeted 1,500 feet...
...plywood Army glider was released from its tow plane over St. Louis' Municipal Airport. A wing cracked, shredded into splinters. The glider plummeted crazily 1,500 feet to earth. Debris and bodies were thrown 50 ft. into the air. All ten passengers were killed instantly. Among them were St. Louis' 67-year-old reform Mayor William Dee Becker, Major William B. Robertson, pioneer aviation enthusiast and backer of Lindbergh's Paris flight, and other top city officials. The glider ride was the climax of a demonstration by the Army's Troop Carrier Command; the tragedy...
...built its foundations? Says "Hauptmann Hermann," once Hugo Junkers' employe and friend, now a refugee who writes under a pseudonym: Junkers and the technical genius of Ernst Heinkel. A year after the Armistice, a small group of aviation enthusiasts was meeting for glider contests in the little mountain village of Gersfeld. The army became interested. In an atmosphere akin to that of an old-fashioned detective story, planes and aircraft factories were secretly built under the eyes of the Inter-Allied Control Commission. Planes were hidden in nearby meadows when inspectors came through the factories. When the Allied Commission...
...real war, command of the airborne troops passed on to Brigadier General Don Pratt, General Lee's assistant commander. Relays of paratroops came in on schedule during the morning. So did a glider resupply mission...