FLYING FORTRESSES
Improved Type Said To Be Overdue NEW YORK. October 11. Though the Flying Fortress has been improved again and again, the limits of its refinements have been reached. Little higher performance can be squeezed from its eight-year-old design, writes Major A. de .Seversky in the “New York Times.” New bombers twice the size of flic Fortress may soon lie in action. This change is long overdue. By the time the bigger bombers are in full production they may be insufficiently advanced to close the tactical gap created by such German innovations as fighters witii 23 millimetre cannon which outrange our bombers’ .50 calibre machine-guns. American air power strategy can be discredited if the United States fails to lead in performance.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 15, 13 October 1943, Page 6
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122FLYING FORTRESSES Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 15, 13 October 1943, Page 6
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