High-Speed Refuelling By Planes in Flight
Received Monday, 7.45 p.m. WASHING-TON, April 5. Super-Portress bombers aiming at far distant targets, can refiiel in the air within a few minutes by a new high-spced method aeveloped by the Air Force. This range-stretching t'echnlque was nintei at Deiore the . senate armed serviees committee recently by the Air Secretary, Mr! Stuart Symington, who said Super-Fortresses, using the most modern developments, eould bomh any part of Russia from bases in Alaska or Labrador. Al though he declined to disclose the exact speed wherewith the transfer of petrdl from tanker-plane to bomber can be made by ths Americaa method, oue expert said British airmen had developed a method of pumping fuel from one pjane- to another at about 100 gallons a minut.e. The American equipment was ' designed to pump several times faster. This is held to iriflicate that a Super-Fortress coiild take on virtually a full load of petrol in perhaps 15 minutes. A Super-Foraress , fuelled by the present standard, can fly 4600 ' miles. -
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 April 1948, Page 7
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