Word: pb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.F.C. is virtually a huge one-way airline. Eastward to Britain each month fly fleets of sleek Lockheed Hudsons, big Boeing Flying Fortresses, plus some Consolidated Liberators (6-24) and a few Catalinas (PB-Y). They fly without the amenities of commercial airlines, part of the way without radio beams, with minimum equipment. The planes are built, not for transatlantic cruising, but for bombing flights...
...Meaning: experimental (X) patrol bomber (PB), second of manufacturer's related design (2), Martin (M), first specimen in its own series...