Word: messerschmitt
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...before, Hitler's "shadow"-the young World War I infantryman and Air Force pilot who had got caught in the 1923 Munich beer-hall Putsch and had gone to jail with Hitler and had helped him write Mein Kampf in prison-had traveled to Augsburg and decorated Willy Messerschmitt at the Messerschmitt aircraft factory for services to the Fatherland. Three days later Hess had sat on the dais of Berlin's Kroll Opera House, arms folded and beetle-brows lowered, while his frenzied colleague of 21 hard years of struggle had crowed over the victory in the Balkans...
...both in multi-seated bombers and in pursuit planes (Spitfires, Hurricanes, etc.). Pursuit observers cannot expect diplomatic immunity from the Luftwaffe, for Spitfires and Hurricanes have only one seat. Already, according to a British account, one U.S. observer who took a Spitfire up for a trial run found a Messerschmitt on his tail, had to shoot it down to save his own skin (TIME...
Werra parachuted into British hands last September when his Messerschmitt was shot down over Croydon Airport. Interned in Hyde Park, the 26-year-old airman was surprised while burrowing his way out, shipped off to a Scottish prison camp. There he promptly escaped again, was picked up after six days when he tried to board a boat for Eire...
...liquid-cooled power superior to air-cooled power in military airplanes? Should Detroit take over the aircraft industry? How many planes should we ship to Britain, how many keep for ourselves? Can our fighters stay in the same air with the Messerschmitt? What will be the status of international airlines when the war is over...
...Libyan campaign left some unfinished business. The worst nuisance was German air activity. Last week for the first time, the R. A. F. revealed that not only were comparatively defenseless Junkers Stukas and Heinkel bombers being used by the Germans over Libya, but also some up-to-the-minute Messerschmitt fighters to cover them. In unconquered Libya there were still three important air bases-Homs, Misurata, Castel Benito (near Tripoli). But for the most part the Germans were operating out of Sicily...