Last week Aircraft Maker Lawrence (Airacobra) Bell showed newsmen his recently expanded factory in Buffalo. His guests inspected hundreds of gleaming, new machine tools, saw that Larry Bell had perhaps the finest aircraft plant in the U. S. They looked over a production line of some 30 Airacobras —all-metal, low-winged, single-engined pursuit planes designed to fly upwards of 400 m.p.h., climb phenomenally fast to intercept enemy bombers. And the visitors got a lesson in the status of U. S. defense.
One Airacobra was in service. Two were nearly finished. Three a day should be trundling off the production line for the...
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