Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship coming off the drawing boards that would revolutionize military aviation. It did. The ship was the Martin B10, a two-motored monoplane. With a range of 1,800 miles and a bomb load of 2,400 pounds, it could pull away from any pursuit ship then in the air at a top speed of 250 miles an hour. The U. S. Army took 151 of them, the Argentine 35, The Netherlands 117. The last of the Netherlands order is being set up for flight this week in Java. Altogether 340 B-10s rolled out through the factory doors...
...flying boats. Meanwhile, with pursuit ships getting faster & faster, practical, businesslike Glenn Martin laid down another job for his designers. What was now needed, he said, was a bomber that could defend itself against fighters. Since it could no longer outspeed them, its only chance to stay in the air lay in giving it enough maneuverability and fire power to hold its own in aerial combat...
Also he entered a 167, fitted with U. S. instruments and equipped for Air Corps tactical missions, in the Army's attack-bomber competition. Douglas, which has also been one of the big Army contractors, had lost its entry when it started the Senate asking questions: at Santa Monica Test Pilot Johnny Cable cracked up the new Douglas ship, with a French observer aboard, and was killed. Re-entering the competition late, Douglas turned up with a slicked-up job, reputedly with a speed above 400 miles an hour, and, in a Garrison finish, last week took first money...
...shares of Glenn L. Martin Co. were put on the market at $11.50 a share (current price: $34.625). Today, Martin remains well in control with some 37% of the stock in his hands, but the bankers who are now interested in his company have taken him out of the air. Because Martin is the Martin Company they are taking no chances. His life is insured for $1,000,000 and the policy is void if he so much as gets into an airplane on which a propeller is turning...
Distinctive national insignia for fighting planes were originated early in the World War so that in the split-second action of aerial dogfights pilots could quickly identify friendly planes, would fire on none by mistake. After the War their use soon spread to all the world's air forces. Even with camouflage they will probably be used in the next great war, both for their identification factor and because the sight of friendly wings overhead is a morale builder for ground troops. As the flags of nations have disappeared from modern battlefields, they thus reappear, in new forms...