Ci vil and Military Types Enlarge Radius: Improved Designs the World Over The ever-widening network of international airlines, bringing with t the further need for long flights.
on-stop over both land and water. has turned the attention of aircraft designers to the development or long range types, writes Leo A. Kieran to the New York "Times."
The flight of the Soviet pilots from Moscow to the United States, clearly indicates the value of aeroplanes capable of long range. Had their ships not been of that type the flights could never have been attempted, for they had to pass over thousands of miles of uncharted and undeveloped territory where a forced landing would spell disaster.
The full value of their flights, however, will be known only when it is determined how much of the data collected can be adapted to military and commercial aviation. Like the development of a safety factor, such spectacular flights serve as laboratory experiments. It must follow that a plane which can carry sufficient fuel for 5,000 miles can be made to operate on a basis of airline economies for at least half that distance, regardless of terrain.
Elimination of half the total distance brings with it a reduction of more than half the fuel needed, as the plane uses more fuel during the first half of a long journey than during the second, due to load reduction. carries 2,204 pounds of bombs for &bout 2.400 miles.
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