Tested recently for the United States army air corps, a new all-metal plane, built by Consolidated Aircraft corporation, can travel faster than 300 miles per hour pulled by four twin-row radial engines of 1,200 horsepower each, and can’earry four tons of bombs. With a cruising range of about 3,000 miles, it is manned by a crew of six to nine, depending upon its mission. Larger than any other “flying fortress,” and weighing 40,000 pounds gross, the new plane has a wing span of 110 feet, its fuselage is sixty-four feet long, and the overall height is nineteen feet. There are hatches and windows in the nose, tail, turtledeck, back and bottom. The rear wheels of the tricycle landing gear retract into the wings, the front wheel into the fuselage.