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While bossing the Berlin airlift, Major General William H. Tunner -often thought of what the ideal military cargo plane should be like. Last week, at an "Air Cargo Day" meeting in Manhattan's Hotel Statler, he described it. It should have four engines and be able to carry 50,000 Ibs. of cargo on a 3,000-mile flight at 250 m.p.h. It should be able to fly at 20,000 ft., land on a 6,000-ft. runway. Engines and equipment should be designed for easy repair and cargo doors should be wide enough...
Although General Tunner was looking into the future, the Air Force already had two planes which come close to filling his bill. One of them, the Douglas Globemaster II (C-124), made its first test flight last week. It can carry 50,000 Ibs., has clamshell doors in its nose big enough to drive a truck through. It falls short mainly in its range, 1,500 miles...
...other plane is Boeing's C-97-B, a sky-truck version of its Stratocruiser, now in quantity production in Seattle. The C-97-B will carry more cargo (53,000 Ibs.) higher (30,000 ft), faster (300 m.p.h.) and farther (3,750 mi.) than Tunner asked for, but its largest cargo door is a hair too small for the Army truck. Last week, Boeing engineers were busy designing a new door...
...neurotic intellectual playchildren so short on real character and appeal that they seem hardly worth saving. The death of one and the madness of the other seem appropriate but by no means tragic ends. Much as she cares for Port, Kit makes love to his best friend and tripmate, Tunner, in a train compartment, again on a sand dune as Port lies dying. Kit and Port, with their indistinct backgrounds and motives, are largely novelist's puppets, and Tunner is a collard lightweight who is used to fill out the classic triangle...
...planes streaked across the sunny sky over Berlin, a Soviet officer at the Air Safety Center, charged with keeping track of the Western planes, complained bitterly : "You move around so fast I can't keep my records straight." Airlift Commander Major General William Tunner got a breezy example of his men in action. When he asked one airlift pilot at Tempelhof for a ride back to his headquarters at Wiesbaden, the pilot glanced at the general's regulation pilot's jacket which hid his rank and shouted: "You'll have to shake your tail...