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...plants 1,100 miles apart last week, General Dynamics' Convair Division gave the U.S. a peek at two new developments in the deadly art of aerial warfare, one over sea, one over land. From San Diego, Convair's giant R 3 Y-2 Tradewind turboprop transport went aloft as the Navy's newest flying boat tanker, packing enough fuel for eight swept-wing jets as they snuggled up, four at a time, behind trailing funnel-fitted hoses. Even bigger news was Convair's new B58 Hustler bomber, a plane eight years in development as the nation...
Paramount's Bahama Passage has one redeeming grace: fathoms of magnificent Technicolored shots made in the Bahamas. They have the authentic tradewind touch: the soapy green of shallow water, the blue-black of deep water, the yellow-white sails of fishing smacks, the paintless clapboard houses, the lassitude of tropic...
...Lieut. William S. MacLaren and Widow Beryl Hart, 27, flying the Bellanca seaplane Tradewind, reached Bermuda fortnight ago in their attempted "payload" flight from New York to Paris. They took off again for the Azores, flew into a high wind over heavy seas, were not again seen or heard from. A few optimists clung to the ephemeral hope that the flyers were alive on one of the outlying Azores. But cold reason labelled the Tradewind the seventeenth transatlantic plane to be lost since 1927; the pilots the 30th and 31st; Mrs. Hart the fourth woman...
Guessers. In the Bellanca seaplane Tradewind, Lieut. William S. MacLaren, former U. S. N. pilot, and his pupil Widow Beryl Hart, 27, transport pilot, took off from New York last week for Bermuda, Azores, Paris. Instead of a radio the plane carried a small cargo of advertised foodstuffs for "the first payload flight to Europe." In "rocking" the plane off the still water the flyers knocked to the floor their sextant - only navigating instrument aboard - but instead of turning back they elected to guess their course. Navigator MacLaren guessed right at first, picked up two steamers about halfway; guessed wrong...
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