Word: hirth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heinkel 177 is a 35-ton bomber powered by four 1,200-h.p. Hirth air-cooled engines. It is believed to have an eight-ton bomb capacity at normal range (about 500 miles), a top speed of 300 m.p.h.*The presumption is that it would be as effective in bombing Britain as the Lancaster, Britain's best heavy bomber, is in raiding Germany. But the Germans have yet to prove that they can turn out 177s in great quantities...