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...more than twice as much as the sunk destroyer Reuben James (1,193 tons). Submerged, she displaces 4,304 tons. She can cruise 12,000 miles-more than two complete round trips from Plymouth, Mass, to Plymouth, England. She is so big that she carries a seaplane in a hangar aft of her turret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Convalescent Weapon | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...Hangar flying and hearth-side barrel rolls are going to take a back seat this year as the club swings into action with the purchase of a new club-owned plane and the engagement of a special flying instructor to furnish lessons at a minimum cost through the facilities of the club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fliers and "Hangars-on" Gather to Enlist Squadron of Harvard Men | 10/8/1941 | See Source »

...airmen who had seen Douglas' gigantic, 82-ton 6-19 (TIME, April 28, July 7) the 70-ton Martin 170 did not seem impossibly huge. But she was unmistakably a whopper. Last week she sat in the hangar where she had gradually been collecting herself over the past twelvemonth, after three earlier years of design and tests. Like a frowzy dowager with her hair put up in curlers, she was webbed over with girders, hydraulic jacks, assorted scaffolding; more than 100 workmen, looking the size of nits, swarmed over and through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Second Flying Elephant | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...find a good field to land in," radioed Major Mace, with soothing professional calm. There was no reply. "What's your position?" the Major asked, with less calm. A puzzled voice came in his earphones. "I'm on the ramp in front of Hangar C, right here at Randolph Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Out of Gas | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...Knoxville a golden-blonde hung lanterns in the display window of Walgreen's drugstore, candles glowed on cafeteria tables (see cut), the City Utilities Building displayed a miniature hangar in which a new airplane appeared every time 50,000 kilowatt-hours were saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Southern Blackout | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

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