Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brazing alloy (with copper and zinc) to connect joints: it is workable at relatively low temperatures which do not injure the metals joined...
...when the weather is too low for precision bombing the American Fortresses can ride "in the soup" to their targets, unload bigger bombloads because they have achieved a quality which airmen call "interchangeability"-i.e., they can take light loads to high altitudes over long ranges, or they can cut down their fuel load and have bomb-rack room to load up with explosives. At Emden the Fortress load averaged around four tons each. Extra bomb racks had done the trick, without sacrifice of the Forts' defensive power...
...famed Army pilot told his superiors after a fighting tour that "if you have got a hundred AT-6s [advanced trainers] you are a hell of a lot better off than if you have only twelve P-38s [Lightnings]. . . . We found that when we got into the low numbers we took a beating." Many another fighter pilot reported that when his flight had as much as a two-plane superiority. over the enemy his advantage was disproportionately...
Airacobra (Bell P-39). Never a favorite with U.S. flyers the P-3Q is the darling of the Russian air force which uses it impartially for ground-strafing and for low-altitude righting of Germany's best pursuits. Production is now being cut back and the Airacobra (except for Russian needs) will be succeeded by a new Bell fighter...
Lightning (Lockheed P-38). This twin-tailed twin-engined single-seater, most unorthodox of all fighters in World War II, has proven a sensation. One of the fastest of pursuits at high altitudes, it can also lug bombs on low-altitude missions, fight its way out when bombs are dropped. Long-ranged and heavily armed, it can do almost anything a medium bomber can do, is one of the world's best and most versatile aircraft...