Word: radius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...battle performance the P-51B was clearly fast, rugged and maneuverable enough to tackle any foe at any altitude. Top speed is well over 400 m.p.h., ceiling above 40,000 ft. The Mustang packs plenty of armament (one earlier version carried four 20-mm. cannon), and within a limited radius can lug two 500-lb. bombs against ground targets...
Last week, before stands half-filled, by people living within a Presidentially pre scribed ten-mile radius of West Point, Navy's passing attack was good for only six yards but its running offense punctured Army's line...
...fall "it is no pleasant matter for the Workers to make their way home through the welling mud." But the vast factory hums with work, and thousands pass through its gates each shift. The buildings are camouflaged, for when they were built the foe was still within raiding radius...
Range for Escorts. There was more history at Emden. Never in the European theater had fighters traveled so far (350 miles) to meet German defenders. Never had bombers had such protection over a German homeland target. Even the superb Spitfire has a fighting radius less than a third as great...