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...plants (two in Washington, one in Kansas) entirely to B-29 production, and the plane will also be made at the Martin plant in Nebraska, the Bell plant in Georgia. Douglas and Lockheed will keep on making B-17s. Hap Arnold has said that, with the advent of the B29, the Fortress and Liberator would revert to the status of medium bombers. But there is no intention of discarding them on that account. In the relatively short-ranged European theater, there is a vast amount of work to be done not only by the four-engined "mediums...
...Forces General "Hap" Arnold had said that the new superbomber, the Boeing B29, would make the Flying Fortress shrink to the size of a medium bomber. And that was about all the U.S. public knew about the B29, until last week...
...B29. recently named Superfortress, is a four-engined bomber and the biggest long-range bomb carrier the world has ever seen. By Flight's description it can lug a load of more than eight tons 1,000 mi. (i.e., a 500-mi. radius), can carry three tons 3,000 mi. Its wing span is 141 ft. (Fortress span...
...Replacements. The vast supply function of the A.S.C. begins in the "accelerated service tests" of the Matériel Command. In these endurance runs of new planes, A.S.C. experts watch for parts which wear quickly, to be ready for replacement demands. By the time a new model (like the B29) is in the field, the parts it will need are ready to hand. In the Attu campaign, parts flown in by the Air Transport Command arrived before the planes for which they were ordered...
Hill, C. J., J. S. B29...