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Fanny Rouge puttered back & forth a few hundred feet above the battery. From the flimsy two-seater liaison plane the observer could see the target : German trucks and men clustered around buildings off to the right. Fanny Rouge radioed their location to her artillery...
...Allied Air Force, in its new A36 fighter-bombers, sprang a particularly nasty surprise on the enemy during the pre-invasion cleanup. An adaptation of the North American Mustang (P-51) the A36 is a 400-mile-an-hour single seater, equipped with dive brakes and wing bomb racks. It functions as a dive or glide bomber or as a low level strafing ship, specializing in such small but worthwhile targets as truck convoys, trains and power stations...
Thousands of his craft are already in service, from two-seater trainers to troop carriers. Standard CG-4A glider, worked out by the Army and Waco Aircraft, is a burly, 3,600-lb. flying boxcar that carries 15 men, or an armed jeep, or a 105-mm. howitzer to battle. Three can be towed by a single C-47 (military DC-3) transport...
About the size of a suitcase, weighing 128 lb., the compact device is already in use for testing all types of planes from single-seater fighters to B-19s. A recorder costs $2,000 (Glenn Martin paid for one in a week with money saved in life-insurance premiums for the three observers usually carried on heavy bomber test flights). But the supply of recorders is still limited...
...single-seater plane was flying much too low for acrobatics. The Army pilot, overconfident, rolled it out of one tight vertical turn into another in the opposite direction. As the ship lost flying speed it rebelled, shuddered, whipped over and down in a sickening corkscrew. The pilot never had a chance to recover control...