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Originally designed (by Boeing) as a combat plane, Grandpappy long since has been only a packhorse. His insigne is an overloaded elephant. These days he thunders around the Caribbean carrying great quantities of cargo - as much as 15 tons pay load per trip. Flying from the Canal Zone to Trinidad is routine for Grandpappy, whose great gas tanks enable him to fly 24 hours at a stretch...
...Jobs, Old Glories. Sometimes Grandpappy goes photographing; 1,000 miles out to sea and back, without landing, is still a great feat, but he does it with only a perfunctory grunt upon reaching base. Mostly he carries people and supplies, just as he once carried a full load of medicines to earthquake victims in Chile. That was five years ago last month. Grandpappy's pilot then was burly Major Caleb V. Haynes, now a Brigadier General heading the First Bomber Command at Mitchel Field, New York, onetime boss of all of Chennault's bombers in China...
...R.A.F. Bomber Command, adding up its operations for the first month of 1944, reported that it had dropped 16,500 tons of bombs on Germany (U.S. bombers probably added another 5,000 tons). Dying Berlin had caught the heaviest load, approximately 10,000 tons...
...recently named Superfortress, is a four-engined bomber and the biggest long-range bomb carrier the world has ever seen. By Flight's description it can lug a load of more than eight tons 1,000 mi. (i.e., a 500-mi. radius), can carry three tons 3,000 mi. Its wing span is 141 ft. (Fortress span...
...favorite cause: pilots' safety. Since the airlines cannot expect to get any new planes this year, and are operating their skeleton fleet of 175 ships an average of 11.5 hours a day, the most obvious way to meet the enormous demand for air transportation is to boost the load each plane is licensed to carry. CAB has proposed to increase the Douglas DC-3 take-off weight limit of 25,200 Ib. by 1,000 Ib. and the 24,400-lb. landing weight...