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Flat-Tired Take-Off. Major Gilbert Wymond, a Thunderbolt pilot from Kentucky, tried the unheard-of stunt of loading his P47 with two 1,000-lb, bombs. The load squashed his fully inflated tires nearly flat on the takeoff, but he staggered into the air. Since then P47 pilots have lugged two 1,000-pounders as a matter of routine...
Into Whitemarsh Hall, with its 45 bathrooms, moved the Metropolitan's Building Superintendent William Chapman. Into special vans went 90 loads of crated, padded masterpieces and objets d'art. In case of accidents, no van carried more than a million-dollar load. But the secret, heavily guarded trips proved uneventful...
...Allies, the crushing load pressed most heavily on sunny General Dwight David Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander, his brilliant, pipe-smoking deputy, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, on airmen like Britain's Leigh-Mallory and the U.S.'s "Tooey" Spaatz, on seamen like Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey and U.S. Rear Admiral Alan Kirk. And a special weight pressed on two of their top subordinates: Cromwellian General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, and Lincolnesque Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, A.U.S...
...American Export Airlines flying boat took off from New York's LaGuardia field with a capacity load of freight and passengers. The huge, 30-ton, four-motored ship landed in Ireland 15 hr. 51 min. later. Average speed : 211 m.p.h. The flight clipped 26 min. from the previous west-east record. Pan American has predicted even faster time of 13 hr. 48 min. to London (TIME, Sept. 6). Use of land planes may lower even this fancy figure...
When war burst over Europe's dam in 1939 many a wishful-thinking strategist offered a simple, temporarily sensible formula: let Allied planes load up in France, drop their bombs on Germany, land in Poland, reload, shuttle back to France...