Word: liberatore
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The present Fortress is such a plane in embryo. But it is only the forerunner. The 1943 planes will have bigger bomb loads (probably ten tons or better), longer ranges, even more anti-fighter fire power. It was to such planes that President Roosevelt referred in part last week when...
A new conception of the warplane is emerging in Europe. Today it is the Flying Fortress (B17) and Liberator (B-24). Tomorrow it will be the air dreadnought -not only capable of bombing the earth below but able and eager to fight anything aloft.
Thirty-one thousand miles of flying (most of it in a big Consolidated Liberator with "Gulliver" painted on its weathered nose in Chinese,* English and Russian), through nearly a score of countries and territories flaming with war, separated Wendell Willkie from his last meeting with Franklin Roosevelt. As the President...
Consolidated 8-24 (Liberator) - four-motored, air-cooled. In the Pacific, in northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians the B-24 has shown itself a top-flight performer.
ONE OF THOSE GREMLINS MUST HAVE BEEN SITTING ON YOUR WRITER'S SHOULDER WHO TYPED TIME, OCT. 5: "HE (WILLKIE) LANDED AT MOSCOW FROM A FLYING FORTRESS. . . ." NOT THAT WE AT CONSOLIDATED HAVEN'T RESPECT FOR THE 6-17; WE MERELY LIKE OUR BOMBERS TO GET THEIR JUST...