Word: cargo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doing away with much of this clutter of ribs and spars is a major step in development of the flying wing, for this bodiless plane must have clear wing interiors to make room for passengers, cargo, bombs, Northrop Aircraft built a two-engined flying wing with a 38-ft. span, flew it so successfully last fall that the U.S. Army popped the queer plane out of sight for further development. Reason: some engineers estimate that the plane, lacking a tail, has 40% less head resistance than a conventional plane, and every square inch of its body contributes to lift. Hence...
Each of the 96 airline-operated sky-freighters now flies close to 1,500 miles daily with up to 3,500 pounds of cargo-plus officers and soldiers. All told they haul a smacking 500 tons a week, four times as much as Army pilots ever carried. Beamed one Army colonel: "a magic carpet of transportation." Boasted tough, air-wise General Henry J. F. Miller, drafted from Wright Field to head the ASC: "the hardest-working planes in the world...
...this superservice the Army pays the airlines cost plus a percentage of costs (usually 5 to 10%). This is fatter than the deal talked about last month: cost plus $1. But this week most airline operators were too agog over their new cargo service even to think about profits. Even if the cash is not rolling in as it once did, many operators figure the ASC is good stuff, as an enforced laboratory it has prodded the airlines into wonders they would not dare try themselves...
...Army is also pleased. In fact, it has already earmarked for airline operation some 200 huge cargo planes scheduled to come off production lines before year's end. When these planes are added to airline fleets, U.S. airlines will fly more planes to more places than ever before...
American Export Airlines began commercial nights last week on its long-awaited transatlantic service. First to cross was the 30-ton flying boat Excalibur with 16 high-priority passengers, several tons of urgent cargo. Out of luck were dozens of "first flighters" who applied for bookings...