Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another peeled off. This time the gun got the range, sending tracers and explosives that seemed to go right into the fuselage. He passed out of sight. All the guns were firing now-from the nose, top turret, the waist and the ball turret in the belly. The tail gunner reported attack after attack...
Slow Starter. The Thunderbolt was a long time getting there. Production bogged in sloughs of tail flutters, engine imperfections, radio quirks, troubles with the turbosupercharger that, with 62 ft. of aluminum air ducts, crams the belly of the ship. The plane now creeping into R.A.F.-Eighth Air Force communiques is the fourth model. It looks something like a huge,* streamlined milk bottle. It is half as heavy as a loaded 21-passenger transport, is armed with eight .50-calibre machine guns, is heavily armor-plated, is powered with a 2,000-h.p. Ford-built Pratt & Whitney engine...
...parachute, tackled the fire with extinguishers and water bottles. When he had used them up, he beat out the last flames with his hands. Meantime, he had contrived to man both waist guns in turn, helped to beat off harrying Focke-Wulfs and given first aid to the wounded tail gunner...
...great chemist August Kekulé discovered the theory of the benzene ring in a dream about snakes, in which one of the snakes seized its own tail and the image whirled scornfully before his eyes...
...pilot seat on the sand, under 15 ft. of water. His nerveless hands reached down, unbuckled the seat strap and his pneumatic life belt brought him to the surface. Too paralyzed to swim, he was lifted and dropped by the waves. Dimly he saw the two tail rudders "sticking up out of the water like twin tombstones." At last a wave carried him in far enough so that he could crawl up on the beach...