Word: b29
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...precise, blankly implacable machines they kill with have a brutal beauty. Ever since then, Fernand Léger (rhymes with beige hay) has been painting flat, bright-colored pictures which look as smoothly efficient, and as difficult to comprehend, as the instrument panel of a B29...
...that the forces under his command had made the greatest direct contribution to the defeat of Japan. That distinction belonged rather to men of all services who had fought under Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and to the strategic bombers of the Twentieth (B29) Air Force. But the occupation command fell naturally to the top field commander in the theater-providing he had the qualifications...
...Japs had already offered to surrender when the New York Herald Tribune's solemn, bespectacled Homer Bigart last week climbed into a Japan-bound B29. He wanted to see how the flyers felt on such a mission...
...controls of a B29, General LeMay flew the 4,640 miles from Hawaii to Washington for a new nonstop record...
With 27 helpers, Rowen got busy. Shunning everything that looked like school, he set up workable, toy-like models of the main parts of a B29, beginning with a propeller that could be operated from an exact replica of B-29 controls, and ending with a mockup of a whole plane in which student reactions could be tested when things went wrong. Charts and graphs of fuel and electrical systems were also converted into full-scale mockups, covered with Plexiglas or painted in bright colors so that students could see what happened when they worked the controls. Result: fascinated trainees...