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Woods wirelessed Hong Kong: "FORCED DOWN SUIFU BY JAPS, STARBOARD WING SMASHED. SEND ANOTHER. MOUNTING RUNWAY...
...crew of six trailed after him. Stanley Umstead started the four engines from left to right, kicking up a great williwaw of dust as he turned them up. He wheeled the Gargantuan bomber down the field, swung her into the wind, gave her the coal. Rolling hugely down the runway, she picked up her skirts slowly. But she was off, wobbling a bit-her feel was still strange to the man at the controls-in a run of 2,000 feet. Lightened to 41 of her 82 tons (full load), she climbed easily while Douglas workmen left their work...
Attack. The U.S. was on the move elsewhere in the Pacific. More contractors and new material were being rushed to Guam for construction of a base only 1,500 miles from Yokohama. At Wake, new runways began to ring the lagoon. On Midway Islands, one runway was complete and ready for planes, one enormous hangar sparkled new in the sun. Soon a great bomber runway would be casting up far-sweeping silver-winged planes that could reach the heart of Japan...
Long Island's Belmont Park, long known as the Newmarket of America, last week tried to become the Longchamps of America too. As an accessory to the $5,000 Fashion Stakes (opening-day feature for two-year-old fillies), President Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt set up a runway on a balcony café overlooking the paddock, got ten Manhattan smartshops to send clotheshorses to parade between races...
Once out of the hangar, the B-19's wings seemed to grow. She is 212 ft. in wingspan: from tip to tip her span equals the height of a 20-story building. On the runway, Douglas' flying battleship began to show the heft of her weight: 80 tons fully loaded (twice the weight of Pan American's big Boeing Clippers). Her left wheel found a soft spot in the macadam, sank 18 inches. She was rolled out, finally tied down not far from 28th Street, where Santa Monicans eyed her with wonder. Over and through...