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Black-browed, snow-haired John Carlton Ward Jr., president of Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp., is not normally a Gloomy Gus. Generally he is too busy making good his promise to build huge wood-veneer bomber-crew trainers-"the biggest damn airplanes out of wood that anyone ever thought of" (TIME, June 1, 1942). But last week, in his official capacity as president of the East Coast Aircraft War Production Council, 50-year-old Carl Ward caught the headlines with some very Gloomy-Gus talk. Said...
Carl Ward, president of Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp., had good reason for his feelings. One of the great and immediate U.S. aviation needs of 1942 is skilled bomber crews. Without bomber crews there can be no second front, no 1942 or early-1943 offensive. And the plane Carl Ward saw in the making was the answer-a bomber-crew trainer that can be produced at flood speed. More, it is an allwood plane, draining off no great quantities of vital materials...
...could be fashioned into flying machines as big as houses, if necessary. In wooden-wing planes the cautious Army had contented itself with fleets of Ward's little primary trainers. Now the Army has asked Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. to make big, wood-veneer, twin-engine planes for bomber-crew training-as fast, as maneuverable as many twin-engine bombers on the war fronts. They will be complete, with bombs in their belly bays and guns at gun stations. Plastic-and-wood planes had come...
Fairchild's process, patented by a subsidiary, Duramold Aircraft Corp., does not greatly differ from others. Boeing Aircraft Co. is also making wood bomber-crew trainers; its planes contain more fabric...
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