Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time they were in sight their bomb doors gaped. From the bellies bombs fell away, seemed to stay in formation with the speeding craft as they shot toward the target. The first bomb hit the ground short of the target, bounced, ripped through. The next three went smack through it. The planes that followed had nothing left but the circle. No bomb missed it. Major Benn's skip-bombing lesson had come home...
Lesson in Defeat. In the early days of the war the Air Ferrying Command grew spasmodically, constantly hamstrung by the demand for combat planes-and the general confusion. What air transport there was in battle zones was done largely by combat pilots in war craft, which were loaded to the last limit of safety. Not until July 1942, when the Air Ferrying Command became Air Transport Command, was there an organized effort to fly cargo regularly over established routes...
Transport's Planes. Air Transport Command is still sadly short of the planes it needs. Beyond the old reliable DC-3, it must largely rely on Liberator bombers, converted to cargo craft and thus long on power and short on freight space. But planes are on the way. Douglas, besides turning out the veteran DC-35, is also producing the C-54, a four-engined mon ster with a payload of ten tons. Curtiss is turning out the powerful two-engined Commando ("Dumbo" to airmen) which made the mass flight to India...
...year's end ATC men expect that 95% of their craft will be planes built for freight hauling. They will have to look farther for the bigger, longer-range craft that aviation must have for the postwar world...
...predictable development of air craft within the next few years will bring longer airways flights...