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...wraps off its sleek but weird-looking new light bomber, the XB-42 (see cut). What gave it the weird look were two propellers, rotating in opposite directions, behind the tail. What made it important to Douglas was that it is the military prototype of his DC-8 (the Skybus), his chief hope for a profitable postwar future. The XB-42 (facetiously dubbed the "Mix-master") is in the 4Oo-m.p.h. class. The DC-8 will be slower, cruising at 270 m.p.h., and slightly bigger...