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...England, a Focke-Wulf dived and gunned a locomotive, whose boiler exploded, bagged the raider...
Back to Back. Major General Jimmy Doolittle's 12th Air Force probably had enough planes to provide support in the air. From North Africa came reports of P-38 Lightnings meeting and beating Focke-Wulf 1905 and Messerschmitt 109Gs in their first major combat test. The difficulty was the lack of airdromes near enough to the front. The small French bases that were available were not equipped. Oil, gas and equipment for servicing had to be laboriously moved up. The difficulty was supply...
Chennault's Pappy is just another Boeing Fortress in Britain. Last week, returning from a raid on St.-Nazaire, Chennault's Pappy met a prodding, determined attack by a flight of Focke-Wulf 1903. In a brief burst of hell, one of the crew was killed, three were wounded. The Fortress was struck by ten cannon shells. But plane & crew saw it through to an American airdrome-"surely," said an Irish sergeant who heard the survivors' story, "by the grace...
...Germany's new Heinkel (H-177) is her first four-motored bomber designed as such (the Ju-Sg and Focke-Wulf Kurier were militarized transports). Its most distinctive feature: it has only two propellers, with two liquid-cooled (1,200-h.p.) engines geared to each propeller. The 177 is larger than the Flying Fortress, is almost as fast (about 300 m.p.h.). The Henschel-129, a twin-engined attack plane, is the Germans' answer to the Russian Stormovik. The 129 has a speed of 275 m.p.h., can carry 770 Ib. of bombs, carries a 37-mm. cannon...
...older fighter types-the Bell P39 and the Curtiss P-40-compels the conclusion that they are not right for operation under today's high-altitude tactics in Britain. Both are outclassed in the high-altitude field by the British Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt 109 and Focke-Wulf 190. But it is one of the paradoxes of aircraft performance that the P39 has proved a splendid weapon on the Russian and Aleutian fronts [where lower altitudes are the rule] and that the P-40 is a first-line fighter in Egypt...