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Captain Arthur J. Staveley, U. S. A. A. F., pilot of a Flying Fortress on the Northern Convoy Patrol, will address a meeting for all University members interested in aviation service to be held this Thursday at 7:30 o'clock in Emerson D. The New England Aviation Cadet Committee working jointly with Elliott Perkins '23, chairman of the War Service Information Bureau, and the Harvard War Information Committee is sponsoring the meeting...
After decades of experiment in many quarters, a simple, practical method of preventing ice formations on plane wings was announced this week by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Heat from exhaust gases does the trick. Said Chairman Tom Girdler: "The Catalina long-range patrol bombers have been in production several months equipped with the radically new thermal anti-icer." He gave credit to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics for the original idea and part of its development...
Little Ships. Escort carriers, converted or built from merchant hulls, do not carry many planes-a few fighters, and torpedo bombers which carry depth charges-but with those planes they can provide extensive cover for convoys beyond the range of land-based patrol planes. When the Allies announced the formation of an "air umbrella" which would provide air protection for convoys from continent to continent (TIME, May 10), escort carriers took over in that loneliest spot of the convoy lanes where the land-based planes turn back and leave the ships on their...
Behind them, the "stage electrician" manipulated his switchboard. He could simulate every effect they might see on a war patrol: dawn, eastern horizon (the thin line of light which justifies the phrase "crack of dawn"); dawn, western horizon (an upper glow, quite different); fire at sea (a glow unmistakable once seen); thunder showers far off; gunfire ("Here's a cruiser coming at you," explained the CPO instructor, and the class watched the tiny, stabbing flashes grow brighter...
Shilling's Lookouts. This is one of the ways lookouts for submarines are selected and trained. Lookout duty, once a punishment, is now so important that the men get extra privileges. All day the submarine on war patrol waits and watches at its undersurface station, hoping for a target. At night it sidles off to surface and charge its batteries. Wallowing at "slow ahead," a sub is doubly vulnerable in the dark. Quick-eyed night lookouts are prized...