Most storied aircraft in the U. S. Army Air Corps today is the Flying Fortress, a monster, four-motored Boeing bomber. Since the first B-17 was delivered to the Air Corps in 1937, the Flying Fortresses have served the Army with the plodding but spectacular fidelity of a string of prize Percherons. Manned by veteran pilots, B-17s have made countless jumps to the Canal Zone and South America, have ranged far out to sea, made long, heavily loaded hops. None has crashed.
Last week at Virginia's Langley Field, at California's March Field, at other Army Air Corps stations where B-17s are stabled,...
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