Word: theb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theB-29 route between the Marianas and Japan, the surface of the ocean is broken by a pimple called Iwo Jima or Sulphur Island. There the Japanese have maintained three airfields, also a radar station to detect the B-29s and flash word to Tokyo, 750 miles away, giving more than two hours' warning of the bombers' approach. By last week, U.S. planes had bombed little Iwo for 66 consecutive days...
...drag (air resistance) is so low that when the wheels are down the drag is doubled. The flying controls are so delicately balanced that no auxiliary power or "boost" is necessary for the pilot to operate them. This conserves the "feel" that flyers value so much. Test pilots call theB-29 a very "sweet" airplane...