Word: lancasterism
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When Sir Arthur took command, the R.A.F. was gradually replacing its two-engined bombers with longer range, higher load, four-engined Halifaxes, Stirlings, Lancasters. The effective loads of these planes were often exaggerated (the Lancaster, for instance, usually hauls about four tons instead of its theoretical eight), but they added...
Mr. Roe Keeps Going. Britain emerged from World War I with the world's largest air force-22,171 planes. Within a few weeks of the Armistice, says Author Michaelis, she destroyed "more than 20,000." Between 1919 and 1939, R.A.F. chiefs labored to make the best available force...
As the R.A.F. Lancaster- "B for Beer" - neared its target, the bombardier turned to a helmeted man beside him. Said the bombardier:
Britain's servants last week gave evidence that they are doing something about postwar aviation (TIME, Feb. 15, et seq.). A House of Lords committee headed by pudgy Lord Brabazon, onetime Air Minister and Minister of Aircraft Production, already had some recommendations to make: 1) the design of civil...
In a Lancaster on the first raid was New York Timesman James MacDonald, winner of a coin toss that made him representative of the U.S. press. Carefully he noted that the big bomber whipped over the camouflaged decoys on the approach to the Reich's capital and planted its...