Giant Bomber Tires Carry Weight of Seventy Tones

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Taller than many light planes, pneumatic tires, built for a seventy-ton bomber, stand ninety-six inches high. Two such tires form part of the tricycle landing gear, each taking its share of the landing impact and starting to rotate instantly on hitting the ground at 100 miles an hour or faster.

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Giant Bomber Tires Carry Weight of Seventy Tones

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Giant Bomber Tires Carry Weight of Seventy Tones

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eng

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Date Issued (Dublin Core)

1940-08

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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)

186

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Public Domain (Google digitized)

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Archived by (Dublin Core)

Enrico Saonara
Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)

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