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...place, the ranking officer aloft was Brigadier General La Verne G. Saunders, a rugged, black-browed, hairy-chested airman perversely nicknamed "Blondie." Onetime All-America tackle at West Point, Saunders is a veteran airman with a spectacular record in B-17 Flying Fortress operations around the South Pacific...
...four 2,200-h.p. Wright engines (nearly twice the power of the B-17 Fortress) and each engine is equipped with twin turbo-superchargers for undiminished power at high altitude. The four-bladed propellers are 16 ft. 6 in. across, the biggest on any combat plane in service...
Tail-Up and Level. The wingspread is 141 ft. 2 in., the fuselage length 98 ft., and the single tail fin (which has a strong family resemblance to the B-17's familiar tail fin) is 27 ft. high. The Superfortress departs' from previous Fortress custom in having tricycle landing gear -three sets of twin wheels-so that its fuselage, like that of the tricycle-geared Liberator, is tail-up and level on the ground...
...Washington, one in Kansas) entirely to B-29 production, and the plane will also be made at the Martin plant in Nebraska, the Bell plant in Georgia. Douglas and Lockheed will keep on making B-17s. Hap Arnold has said that, with the advent of the B29, the Fortress and Liberator would revert to the status of medium bombers. But there is no intention of discarding them on that account. In the relatively short-ranged European theater, there is a vast amount of work to be done not only by the four-engined "mediums," but by the smaller two-engined...
...that Hitler still ranked first in German affections. The oft-repeated statement that the Fuhrer would know precisely when to order a crushing counteroffensive still had power to persuade. The invaders in the west, the Russian armies in the east still had to break into the Germans' last fortress, their will to survive...