Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than they had ever been-yet it was hard to see what else the Germans could hope to do. They had already proved that great breakthroughs, great gains of territory, the capture of cities were not enough. Russia now could probably survive even the loss of Moscow and its transport and manufacturing area...
...that will be needed to increase air freight tenfold, or a thousandfold, when peace comes, are more and bigger planes and an understanding among nations. Aviation can guarantee the planes. Some of them, like Consolidated's new 400-passenger transport, are on the drafting boards. The tremendous rest is up to the world's statesmen...
...glider program was forced into being by public and military outcry after the German air conquest of Crete; British opinion also demanded a big glider force. Later reports on Crete cooled this enthusiasm so far as the military was concerned; it appeared that Nazi paratroops and transport planes had done the real damage while their gliders had suffered brutal losses (best estimate: 50%). U.S. officers now think the Germans misused their gliders, flying them directly onto British airfields and strong points instead of landing troops near by with room enough to organize an infantry attack...
...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...
...side Miranda Bros. Inc. found plenty of other things to sell. In 1926 they tied up with Major Alexander P. de Seversky, sold transport planes for him in Europe and Asia. They hawked Captain Melvin Maynard Johnson's famed semi-automatic rifle, finally landed him a big Dutch order. Through Seversky they hooked up in 1938 with Felix William Zelcer, a Polish-born ex-speakeasy operator with a yen for aviation...