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...flight for a possible Army contract (TIME, July 15). Because the 70-ft., metalclad monster with its four machine-gun turrets, 6-ton bomb capacity and speed of 256 m.p.h. was regarded as the greatest battle plane ever designed, two young officers, Lieutenants Leonard F. Harman and Robert K. Giovannoli, looked up with interest as it fled past them down the field. Suddenly, when the four-motored plane was nearly 200 ft. off the ground, it lurched to one side, began to wheel in a 180° turn which could have but one meaning. Lieutenants Harman & Giovannoli gauged with experienced...
Hospitalized, Major Hill died without regaining consciousness; the others, including Heroes Harman & Giovannoli, were expected to recover. The plane, which cost Boeing some $500,000 to develop and had only the day before received its design patent, was a total loss...
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