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...itself as "the strong right arm of the State Department." When the U.S. wanted to make a show of force in the Mediterranean, it used the Navy (TIME, Sept. 30). The volatile, high-octane boys in the Air Forces were sure that a single B-29 sitting on a runway in Europe, with a "mushroom bomb" in its belly, would be a more convincing show of force, at a fraction of the Navy's cost. They wanted to blast the Administration's foreign-policy makers off the Navy's teak decks and make them airborne...
With true sportsmanship, the Navy helped the Army in its attack on the record. Ready for the take-off in Hawaii, the Boeing Superfortress Pacusan Dreamboat, 27,000 lbs. overweight, was expected to need every mile of runway it could get. The Navy connected its John Rodgers airfield outside Honolulu with the Army's Hickam Field, gave the Dreamboat 13,500 feet. It took about half that. Actually, the Army had little hope of bettering the Turtle's mark, trumpeted that its $3,000,000 flight over the Pole to Cairo would test performance in polar regions...
...copilot was not in a DC-4. He was in a Constellation (which has a landing-gear lever where the DC-4 has its flap lever). Instead of the flaps coming up, the wheels came up. The Connie crashed seven feet, on to the runway. The crew and 26 passengers were unhurt. But the $750,000 Connie was damaged beyond repair. Contributing cause to the accident: a safety lock-designed to keep the landing gear from coming up when a plane is on the ground-did not work...
...helicopters hopped. Back & forth from lake to Gander the PBYs flew. The shuttle functioned without a flaw-till the very end. Then the PBY bringing out Jeanne Perier, 16, and her brother Etienne, 14 (their mother and sister were killed), blew a tire as it settled on the runway. "What was that?" cried Jeanne. "Just a tire blowing," answered a flyer...
...trusted not to ginger up their mice. For a race track they had chartered the "Royal Oak," a hall attached to a Bath pub. In Mouse Monthly, chief spokesman for the N.W.R.M.C., Britons learned more about mouse wheel racing: the track is twelve feet long and has six runways. The mice, one to a runway, propel diminutive wheels, by trotting on a two-inch treadpath. Entry fee for each race: two shillings sixpence. All mice will be pedigreed and registered, like horses, in an official stud book...