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BULLETPROOF GLASS munu-
factured in England guards
crews of American bombers on
their daring raids over Ger-
many. At the right, members
of the crew of a Flying Fortress
are being shown a specimen of
the steel-stopping window ma-
terlal by workers at the British
factory where it is made. Later,
the glass workers repaid the fly-
ers’ visit by going to an eirfield
of the U. 8. Army Air Forces
and seeing their handiwork in-
stalled on the big Boeing bomb-
ers which are hammering at the
Nazi war machine in Germany
and the occupied countries.
NEW MUSTANG. Powered by the new
Packard-built Rolls-Royce Merlin engine,
the latest version of the North American
Mustang fighter reaches new heights as cs-
cort for the high-altitude heavy bombers of
the USAAF. A two-speed, two-stage
supercharger furnishes the air compression
needed by the engine in the rarefied atmos-
phere more than five miles up. The 1,520-hp.
engine drives a_constant-speed, four-blade
propeller. The ability to fight “upstairs” in
the realm of the German Focke-Wulf 190 is
a startling departure for the P-51, which
won its fame by its amazing performance
as a fighter and fighter-bomber at medium
and so-called “zero” altitudes.
A NOSE TURRET, electrically operated and
mounting two synchronized-firing .50 cali-
ber machine guns, adds to the already for-
midable fire power of the Consolidated
Vultee B-24 heavy bomber. With other tur-
rets in the tail, belly, and atop the fuselage,
plus waist guns, the new armament gives
the Liberator flexible fire power to meet
attack from any direction. The photograph
above shows how the new turret looks.
HAVOC'S GUNS. The young woman in the photograph
at the right, so becomingly draped in a scarf formed by
a belt of machine-gun cartridges, is one of the girls who
check the armament of A-20 attack planes at a Douglas
plant in California. Behind her is the nose of a Havoc
with its four 50 calibers ready for a burst at the
Luftwatte.
FANGS FOR THE FORTRESS. Nazi fighter pilots who
try swooping in head-on at our B-17's will get a warm
reception from the two .50 caliber machine guns carried
in new frontal positions on the big Boeing bombers. Re-
cent tactics of the Luftwaffe dictated the placing of the
guns, which, with 11 more in other positions, give the
Fortress ts sting.
WORLD'S LARGEST four-bladed propeller is this
hollow-steel-blade, Curtiss-Wright job designed for
glant multimotored planes. Sixteen feet eight inches
in diameter and weighing near 800 pounds, it em-
bodies electric controllable pitch, constant-speed
operation, and full feathering.
DIESEL ENGINES
now furnish the mo-
tive power for our
famous M-4 medium
tanks and M-10 tank
destroyers (self-pro-
pelled mounts for
three-inch _high-ve-
locity guns). In the
photograph at the
left, Army mechan-
ics are placing a
General Motors Die-
sel in a land battle
ship. Diesels bring
to the battlefield the
same advantages
that recommend
them in peacetime
industrial uses.
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eng
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1943-12
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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110-113
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, vol. 143, n. 6, 1943
