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...plane controls are basically the same as those by which the Army flew two pilotless and crewless Flying Fortresses from Hawaii to California a fortnight ago. But a "mother" plane is not always needed. In short-range test work all the flying signals can be sent from a truck on an airfield...
Zero Hour. A single B-29 will carry the Model-T bomb at Crossroads. More B-29s will fly above it, to drop instruments in parachutes. The "mother planes" will hover at a fairly safe distance, ready to shepherd their crewless "drones" into the radioactive cloud. At Zero minus 15 seconds, another ring of B-29s, each carrying at least 25 cameras, will turn and head for the target...
Basically, "Between Two Worlds," like "Outward Bound" is about a bunch of spirits on their way to Judgement Day aboard a crewless ship: a fanciful situation, certainly, but one that invites toying with. Warners have used their limitless celluloid element a little too freely, and where the passengers are sailing blissfully along, not yet realizing they are on a ghost ship, they are ignoring the fact that they are sailing on clouds--at least they looked like clouds to us. That error was avoided, necessarily, on the stage...
According to Sulzberger, ample evidence indicates that the weapon is a "crewless, radio-controlled aircraft, which, loaded to capacity with explosives and just enough fuel to get it to its target, can be accurately directed to its objective." Allied experts learned of the device and put the finger on its main weakness: complex launching mechanisms needed to get the projectile-aircraft into flight. Allied reconnaissance planes spied out the emplacements built to house the launchers, and bombers from Britain have been attacking the installations since last November...
...help the R.A.F. carry the war to the invasion coast with greater safety the British have anchored in deep, southeastern Channel waters a fleet of 50-foot "Air Sea Rescue" floats. These crewless havens for fliers who have plunged into the Channel are painted with the Red Cross, are available to Nazi as well as R.A.F. pilots in distress. At each end are ramps to make it easier for wounded men to climb aboard. Below decks are bunks, cookstoves, canned food, medicines, bandages, checkerboards, paper-covered libraries ranging from Shakespeare to whodunits, wireless telephones to call for aid, framed instructions...