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National Geographic : 1944 May
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Finish the Fight with War Bonds Toward Tomorrow Here is the plane that gave Ameri cansanew highway...farup in the heavens . . . the Boeing Stratoliner, introduced in 1940 as the world's first high-altitude transport. Perhaps in peacetime you had the thrill of journeying in one of these huge luxury liners along TWA'S transcontinental route... above weather, high in the sub stratosphere, where flight is swifter, smoother, and surface storms are left far below. Today Stratoliners are wearing khaki in the Army's Air Transport Command, flown by TWA to the far reaches of the earth . . . to Africa and to Iceland ... to Arabia and Australia . . . over the tower ing Himalayas, rooftree of the world, from India into China. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek made her flight to America in a Strato liner. Ambassadors, technicians, fighting men have hopped the oceans in them by the thousands. Stratoliners are constantly car rying ammunition, mail, life giving plasma to battle fronts everywhere ... bringing back sick and wounded. With its pressurized cabins and its advanced aerodynamic design, the Stratoliner, a Boeing develop ment of yesterday, is truly a fore cast of the planes of tomorrow . . another example of the engineer ing and manufacturing skill that produced such ships as the Boeing Flying Fortresses and the trans ocean Clippers. This skill in many lines . . . struc tural, metallurgical, heating, hydrau lics, acoustics . . . will some day be devoted again to peacetime products. And you may know of any such product: if it's "Built by Boeing" it's bound to be good. DESIGNERS OF THE FLYINGFORTRESS * THE NEW 8-29 SUPERFORTRESS * THE STRATOLINER* TRANSOCEANCLIPPERS B O EI N G
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