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...grin. He had made a tentative takeoff, a bouncy landing. Said he, chewing his cigar: "I could take her up any time now and have the feel better." He will have plenty of chances. For B19, so big that a telephone had to be rigged for communication from cockpit to wheels while her brakes were being adjusted, is an experimental job. Too slow (200 miles-plus) for combat work, she is the first big experiment by the Air Corps with the supersize aircraft that may be the bombers of the future. In her design and building, Douglas and Air Corps...
...furloughs had just been summarily postponed. The 44th had got the rush act for a warlike job. It was disposed in the famed cockpit of the Civil War, in Virginia, where Lee, Jackson and Grant had sparred and pounced. The 44th's job: to take Fredericksburg, defended by a regular outfit whose size the 44th did not know...
DEATH AT THE HELM- John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). A yacht piles up on shore with a man and woman freshly dead of poison in the cockpit: she, the wife of a frozen-faced K.C.; he the son of a Purity Society officer. Inspector Jimmy Waghorn figures it all wrong until Dr. Priestley finally appears...
...British Spitfire, but it was not clear to them. They shot at it with machine guns until it was on the ground, and continued shooting as it taxied up. The plane taxied up to the line and a 19-year-old kid got out of the cockpit, walked over to the artillery commander, and said, 'I say, my good fellow, if this sort of thing continues, I shall have to report...
...searchlights were blinding and we were flying entirely on the bomb aimer's instructions. I had my head down inside the cockpit trying to see the instruments, but the glare made even that difficult. Our instructions were not to rush it too much, because of the need for extreme accuracy...