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...Army in the past year, but it looked good to the hard-pressed commercial lines. It also looked good to the U.S. Post Office, which is painfully aware that it has been selling stamps for more air mail than the airlines can consistently carry along with their priority payload (now more than 70% of total cargo for the big lines...
...must largely rely on Liberator bombers, converted to cargo craft and thus long on power and short on freight space. But planes are on the way. Douglas, besides turning out the veteran DC-35, is also producing the C-54, a four-engined mon ster with a payload of ten tons. Curtiss is turning out the powerful two-engined Commando ("Dumbo" to airmen) which made the mass flight to India...
...George: "The only limit is [the airlines'] ability to expand." Biggest immediate addition will be scores of sturdy, twin-engined Douglas DC-35, now rolling off California production lines at a record clip. Next will come giant 25-ton Douglas DC-45, able to tote a ten-ton payload non-stop for 2,200 miles. For the rest of the fleet the Army will lend the airlines huge newfangled Curtiss Commando transports and big-bellied Consolidated 6-24 bombers converted into cargo planes...
...completed plane will be a wartime version of the Vought-Sikorsky 30-ton, four-engined air yachts now used by American Export Airlines to wing over the Atlantic. It will have a 125-foot wingspread, a huge payload, a 4,000-mile range. Parts and sub-assemblies (everything except the engines) will be made in existing Nash plants, put together in a great plant now abuilding in New Orleans...
...more powerful than 100 octane, a plane will some day be able either: >To fly from New York to London on the same amount of gasoline it now takes to fly from Newfoundland to London, or > To carry about 30% less gas and therefore carry a much larger payload...