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...Alexander Yakovlev cut his teeth on trainers before turning to fighters. His proudest brain child is the YAK, a cannon-armed, partly plywood, 400-mile-an-hour plane, which has consistently outfought the Messerschmitt. Practical Vice Commissar Yakovlev is manager of a huge aircraft plant, a major general...
...plywood Army glider was released from its tow plane over St. Louis' Municipal Airport. A wing cracked, shredded into splinters. The glider plummeted crazily 1,500 feet to earth. Debris and bodies were thrown 50 ft. into the air. All ten passengers were killed instantly. Among them were St. Louis' 67-year-old reform Mayor William Dee Becker, Major William B. Robertson, pioneer aviation enthusiast and backer of Lindbergh's Paris flight, and other top city officials. The glider ride was the climax of a demonstration by the Army's Troop Carrier Command; the tragedy...
...Grand Rapids, Mich., traditional home of U.S. furniture, had been steadily converting to plane parts and plywood gliders. Fifteen Grand Rapids furniture manufacturers (75% of Grand Rapids' production facilities) consolidated as Grand Rapids Industries, got the wooden parts contracts, recently bought up plane patent rights from General Aircraft Corp...
When WPB slammed the lid on new piano production last July, the gloom-wrapped industry changed over quickly to making plywood plane parts, deicers. But it kept one eye on the piano market...
While the British-heavies were grounded, the R.A.F.'s sensational new bomber plane, the twin-engined, plywood Mosquito, stung the Reich by day & night with swift hit-&-run raids. On three successive nights last week Mosquitoes bombed Berlin by brightest moonlight; they made six raids against the Reich capital within eight days. From all these raids not a plane was lost; it was not until the sixth raid that Berlin gunners even scored a hit on a Mosquito. The plane they winged came back to England, flying at treetop height, with one motor shot...