Word: aircraftmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon whipped it into the biggest U.S. aviation combine. Then came the infamous airmail investigation which cost him his job, his factories and part of his reputation. But it left him with a million-plus fortune and a flock of pals who thought him one of the best aircraftmen...
...airplane should be closer. German and British aircraft designers are also out after higher operating altitudes. The top-flight aircraft of 1942 will still be able to crawl up beyond the reach of the new 4.7's threatening fingers. But their pilots won't-until aircraftmen design a suitable (i.e., supercharged) cabin. Without more aid and comfort than oxygen can give, top operating altitude for the man at the controls is around 30,000 feet...
Wherever the guns, searchlights and watch posts are, there are soldiers burned hard and brown by the tropic sun, toughened by war with the jungle. For, when the Coast Artillery anti-aircraftmen in the Canal Zone were ordered into the hills last year, they had no place except jungle...
...this speculation, a quiet announcement by the War Department demonstrated that somebody's plan for putting automakers to building aircraft parts is proceeding apace. Three aircraft manufacturers (Martin, North American, Consolidated) were designated to operate new assembly plants at Omaha, Kansas City (Mo.), Tulsa. Purpose: to have experienced aircraftmen assemble the parts automobile manufacturers are to make...
...dressed in British uniforms. He and they welcomed news that the Frenchmen of French Equatorial Africa, France's big blob of territory south of Libya, had elected to fight on with Britain, that there were strong stirrings in French West Africa to join them (see p. 28). Australian anti-aircraftmen arrived and set up their guns in Cairo ?a sure sign that Egypt expected an Italian attack soon, since Australians were not wanted in Egypt after their too hearty conduct there in the last war. Other Australians, in mechanized units, saw their first action of this war when they...