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...move elsewhere in the Pacific. More contractors and new material were being rushed to Guam for construction of a base only 1,500 miles from Yokohama. At Wake, new runways began to ring the lagoon. On Midway Islands, one runway was complete and ready for planes, one enormous hangar sparkled new in the sun. Soon a great bomber runway would be casting up far-sweeping silver-winged planes that could reach the heart of Japan...
Finally, one day last week, the B-19 was ready to roll. In Douglas Aircraft Co.'s huge hangar alongside the field at Santa Monica, Calif., workmen had taken down the curtain behind which they had riveted and shaped her body these past three years. The doors rumbled open. Her enormous wings outstretched, the B-19 was shoved to the door, carefully rolled...
...flying super-powered trunk lid like the late Russian Maxim Gorky, with engine piled on engine to make up for rough design, but a flying machine as sleek and carefully designed as a Spitfire. Rolling through the door the B-19 looked even bigger than she had in the hangar. To get her out, they had had to deflate her tires and weight her tail, so that the nose wheel of her tricycle landing gear was off the ground. Even then her rudder barely cleared the top of the door. And no wonder. For standing in take-off position...
Once out of the hangar, the B-19's wings seemed to grow. She is 212 ft. in wingspan: from tip to tip her span equals the height of a 20-story building. On the runway, Douglas' flying battleship began to show the heft of her weight: 80 tons fully loaded (twice the weight of Pan American's big Boeing Clippers). Her left wheel found a soft spot in the macadam, sank 18 inches. She was rolled out, finally tied down not far from 28th Street, where Santa Monicans eyed her with wonder. Over and through...
...drizzling on the ground and the neon lights on the hangar roofs were haloed in mist when Flight 6 rumbled overhead toward the radio range. The sound of her engines died in the clouds. East of the field Pilot Scott made his turn, headed west, letting down along the beam. From the tower the operators saw Flight 6 break out over the red neon-light "ladder" marking the end of Run way No. 1 (east-west). Pilot Scott was a little high, perhaps by miscalculation, perhaps by design. Flight 6, down to around 300 feet, zipped west over the runway...