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...Careful, Careful." As Li talked, a Chinese air force Mustang, humming along in the fading twilight, nosed over and swooped down on a village three mile, east. A few seconds later we heard the sharp chatter of machine guns. "That village is my objective tonight," said Li. "When the sun is down my artillery will open up and then the infantry will move...
Hiroshima observed the third anniversary of its atomic bomb last week. In token of peace, doves fluttered, bells tolled and a poet was reciting an ode,when a squadron of R.A.F. Mustang fighters thundered overhead, drowning out his voice...
...Bangor, Me.) equipped with P-84s, expects to get delivery of the rest by July. Production of Lockheed P-80 Shooting Stars, the U.S.A.F.'s other jet fighter, is already being tapered off. Manufacture of reciprocating-engine planes, such as Republic's Thunderbolt, North American's Mustang and Twin Mustang, has been cut back to little more than production of spare parts...
...Army Air Forces set a record of sorts last week. From Hawaii's historic Hickam Field a P82 fighter (two P-51 Mustangs joined together) flew 4,978 miles to New York in 14 hrs., 33 min. The Twin Mustang had been stripped of guns and other military gear to carry 6½ tons of gasoline, turning a supposed military endurance test into something of a stunt flight...
Last week Kindelberger proudly showed the public his new "plane. It looked so much like North American's P-51 fighter planes that one ex-Mustang pilot labeled it "The Colt." As Kindelberger had planned, the all-metal 185 h.p. Navion was faster (160 miles top) and carried more (four passengers plus baggage) than most light planes. But it was also expensive enough to take it out of the light-plane price class; the tag said...