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Originally conceived more as an experiment in big-ship construction for the future than as a tactical job, B-19 had suddenly become impressively significant. Her range and striking power are prodigious. In her tanks she can carry 11,000 gallons of gasoline (largest railroad tank-car capacity 10,000). With her range of 7,750 miles, she can fly from New York to Düsseldorf and back with full load, can stay in the air on patrol missions for more than 48 hours. No speedster, she reportedly will cruise around 200 m.p.h., but she is defended...
...bombing raid, a Heinkel bombardier, who is also second pilot, rides up forward in the nose ("meat-can" to U. S. Air Corps big-ship crews). There he has a machine gun, convenient in case his ship is jumped by enemy pursuit. Back of him sits the pilot, still farther back two machine-gunners to deal with pursuit attacking from behind. The top gunner rides in a wind-screened cockpit looking for attacks from above. The gunner on the bottom rides in a "dust-bin," on his belly, to range his guns on pursuits attacking from below...
...Dredging and maintaining a 24-ft. channel in the Great Lakes, a 27-ft. channel in the St. Lawrence River from Ogdensburg, N. Y., to Lake Ontario?first step in the proposed Lakes-to-Atlantic big-ship waterway...