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Airman's Penalty. Last week the Civil Aeronautics Board struck hard at this form of high jinks, served notice that it was going to keep on being tough about it. To Ernest E. Basham Sr., 56-year-old chief test pilot for Consolidated Aircraft at Fort Worth, the board...
This flight had seemed no different from any other. The huge Liberator thundered down the concrete runway. The nose lifted, and she gracefully soared a couple of hundred feet. She swung sidewards, on one wing, and onlookers thought it was a bank; but suddenly there was a roar.
> White faces stared up from the U-boat's deck. Men rushed to the conning tower and clambered in. The U-boat crash-dived. Down through the Atlantic's summer sky Pilot Thomas H. Isley's U.S. Army Liberator screamed in an eight-mile dive at a...
> Not far off, Pilot Walter S. McDonnell had spotted another surfaced raider and had put his big, four-motored Liberator into a dive. Also caught by surprise, that German crew' chose to fight it out. They turned deck guns on McDonnell's plane. The bombardier, navigator, co-pilot...
To retaliate for a bombing of Hankow in which U.S. Liberator bombers shot down 35 of 50 intercepting Zeros, the Jap air force last week ordered 47 planes over Chungking to give the Chinese provisional capital its first raid in almost two years. Three times opposed on their way, only...