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When Navy's No. 1 airman, Rear Admiral John H. Towers, head of BuAer (Bureau of Aeronautics), was last week made a vice admiral it was a promotion for Admiral Towers but a demotion for the Navy's air arm. For Towers was sent out to command all Navy flyers in the Pacific and his key job in the Washington high command was given to a battleship admiral...
...BuAer Chief Rear Admiral John Sidney McCain, 58, is a good officer. But like many other so-called air admirals, he got an airman's rating late, is not an airman by profession, but a battleship admiral with pay-and-a-half and a flying suit.* Since his air training at Pensacola m 1936, at the age of 52, Battleshipman McCain has had little to do with air developments...
...corridors and offices, trying to pound his cargo-plane home for once & all. The net result, it appeared, would be not enough to satisfy eager Henry Kaiser-perhaps an order for three prototypes of a new cargo plane (bigger than the 70-ton Mars) designed by his project partner, Airman Howard Hughes-a far cry from Kaiser's original offer to get right to work on an order for 5,000 planes. But considering the painstaking nature of aircraft engineering-with its many slips between drawing board and production line-it was probably a practical start...
These were the thoughts in the back of many an airman's head as fighters, light bombers and Flying Fortresses swirled over Europe by day and Britain's big four-motored Lancasters, Stirlings and Halifaxes thundered over after nightfall...
Howard Hughes, at 36, is no amateur in the business, is an airman's airman: holder of the transcontinental speed record (7 hr., 28 min.), holder of the round-the-world record (3 days, 19 hr., 8 min.), big shareholder in great Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. He is a first-rate designer himself, has a personal staff of technicians at work in his own experimental laboratories. He and his staff drew up plans for the giant new Constellation transport (range 4,000 miles; capacity 57 passengers, cruising speed 283 m.p.h.) and Howard committed himself...