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Hundred-Tonners. A WPB air-cargo committee has explored the possible construction of 100-ton winged trucks. The Department of Commerce wants 800 all-steel freighters (stainless steel is still at a premium). The Army has contracted for lots of DC-3s, hundreds of 25-ton Curtiss twin-engined troop-toting Commandos...
...problem is: What can be had in a hurry for the 1942 emergency? The prospect: stepped-up production of proved types (Commandos, DC-3s, 25-ton Douglas DC-4s) while engineers work on bigger & better air freighters for 1943 and later...
Meanwhile, ever-increasing U.S. Latin-American trade relations are booming air travel. To fly this business, both Pan Am and Panagra last year boosted operations on most of their lines. In some places service is de luxe. Northwest out of Panama, for example, Pan Am runs fast DC-3s 14 times weekly (see map p. 80, where line thickness indicates flight frequency...
Biggest of the new C ships is the C3, (11,975 tons) which can clip along at 17 knots. The U.S. has taken over seven of the 18 C-3s built to date, to convert into small aircraft carriers for the Navy and Great Britain. Conversion takes only about four months. One of the C-3s, now the U.S.S. Long Island (see cut), is already...
Also assisting are Rodolfo Herrera 4M, Eugene D. Keith '42, Loren G. MacKinney '42, Maurice T. Obregon '43, Eudicott Peabody, 2nd '42, Coles H. Phinizy '42, and Gardner R. Pierson '3S...