Few years ago U. S. Army planes were the best in the world, and a Russian modification of its Boeing P-26, already obsolescent in this country, was the fanciest thing in the air in the early days of Spain's civil war.
But if U. S. plane designers and engine builders expected a pat on the back from the Army Air Corps for their performance as of 1939, they were disappointed last week when Major General Henry H. Arnold, baldish Chief of Air Corps, sat down before the House Military Affairs Committee to sketch the...
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