Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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 mightily to the Bomber Command's power. Recently the Air Ministry released the first picture of a Halifax bomb bay, "bombed up" with one heavy, several smaller high-explosive bombs, and incendiaries...
...riding lights of the ships in the stream there was blackout. Nudged by a hard-breathing tug, the potbellied ferry tied up to the pier and from her maw a soldier appeared. He was followed by another, then more, finally hundreds. Each man bent under a staggering load-150 lb. -as he filed through the warehouse...
...which bettered the same week in 1942 for the second time this year, thanks to larger coal, coke and iron ore shipments. Last week the Association of American Railroads announced that in April the rails delivered over 3,000,000 tons of export freight to U.S. ports-the biggest load ever, 25% above their deliveries in April...
...that shoot a small lead pellet. The guns, designed by Colonel Edward P. Hamilton '18, as accurate as the 75's and 105's that the students will use. They are flatted out with regulation machine gun sights which line the muzzle up with the target. The students can load the guns and fire. The projectiles, when they hit the model, make a mark which can be observed by another student. Working together the two can bring the gun to fire 50 per cent of its shots within the first probable error area...
Less than five days before, those freight ers had been loaded in the U.S. Crack air line pilots, to whom ocean-flying had be come routine, had taken them across 15,-ooo miles of war-char ted airways with no more trouble than they once hauled mail and passengers between New York and Chicago. It was the biggest mass freight flight in aviation history. And although its total freight load was only 90 tons, airmen knew that when peace comes that load could be multiplied almost indefinitely...