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...granted Air Force permission to fly in the F-94, he found himself pretzeled between canopy and parachute while rocketing around the cold night sky at 600 m.p.h. He once had the same trouble when he rode the two-seater version of the F80 Shooting Star, but found the B45 four-jet light bomber more comfortable...
Last week North American Aviation, Inc. announced that it had licked the problem by fitting its four-jet B45 Tornado with new-type bomb-bay doors. Instead of swinging open, they slide into the plane like overhead garage doors. The falling bombs hit a smoothly flowing airstream instead of the uneven eddies stirred up by the old-style doors. Even above 500 m.p.h., all the bombs fall alike, a necessity for good marksmanship...
Leonard, J. N., G. B45...
Eliot, T. L., G. B45...
Fowler, L. H., G. B45...