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CLOUDBUSTER
Friday, March 30, 1945
CLOUDBUSTER
Vol. 3—No. 28
Friday, March 30, 1945
Published weekly under the supervision of the Public
Relations Office at the U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel
Hill, N. C., a unit of the Naval Air Primary Training
Command. Contributions are welcome from all hands.
The Cloudbuster receives Camp Newspaper Service ma
terial. Republication of credited matter prohibited without
permission of CNS, War Department, 205 E. 42nd St.,
N. Y. C.
CcMDR. James P. Raugh, USNR
Commanding Officer
Lieut. Comdr. Howard L. Hamilton, USNR
Executive Officer
Lieut. Leonard Eiserer, USNR
Public Keiaitons Officer
Lieut, (jg) Francis Stann, USNR
Editor
R. D. Jackson, PhoMIc Harold Hanson, Sp(P)2c
Photographers
The Lighter Side...
“Here comes that wolf. I’ll tell him I
have a date even though I don’t.”
“Won’t your conscience bother you?”
“Yes, but not as much as he will.”
“Is that a genuine bloodhound, corporal?”
“Yes sir, come over here Oscar, and bleed
for the Colonel.”
A gal wears shorts when she can’t play
tennis, a bathing suit when she can’t swim,
but when she puts on a wedding gown, she
means business.
WAVE: “My date last night asked me to
marry him and make him happy.”
Ditto: “Which did you decide to do?”
Voice from rear of taxi: Why are you
stopping, driver?
Driver: I heard someone tell me to stop.
Voice: Drive on, she wasn’t talking to
you.
Then there was the lady who was so dumb
she though a goblet was a sailor’s child.
First Sailor: “That new WAVE who just
checked in is a nicely reared girl, isn’t
she?”
Second Sailor: “I should say so. Not bad
from the front, either.”
It is much better to have loved and lost
-much better.
Doctor (self-satisfied): “You cough more
easily this morning.”
Patient: “I should. I’ve been practicing
all night.”
“How’s your new girl?”
“Not very good.”
“Boy, you always were lucky.”
The Wolf
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by Sansone
A fleet of new air giants—the biggest
yet proposed for postwar travel—has been
ordered by Pan American World Airways
from Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp.
Fifteen of the huge super-clippers, known
as Consolidated Model 37, are designed for
use on Pan American’s long distance, high
traffic density routes over the North At
lantic, to Latin America, and between Cali
fornia and Honolulu.
The new airliner has a swing span of
230 feet, overall length of 182 feet, and
two decks throughout the length of the
fuselage. Gross weight is 320,000 pounds,
and over a 4,200-mile range the clipper
will carry a 50,000-pound payload includ
ing 204 passengers, and 15,300 pounds of
baggage, mail and express. The entire cabin
will be pressurized for operation at an
altitude of 30,000 feet. Cruising speed of
the six-engine craft will vary between 310
and 342 mph., depending on altitude and
power output.
The gigantic nature of Model 37 may be
realized when it is considered that:
There will be nearly 25 miles of wire
in each plane.
The electrical system could supply an
average town of 500 persons.
It would take the average motorist 20
years to use the gasoline needed to fill the
tanks.
The blueprints that will be used to build
the plane would cover a 16-acre field.
Heating facilities will be sufficient for a
40-room house.
Three average houses could have been
built with the lumber used in the mock-up.
The main landing gear tire is one foot
higher than the ceiling in an average home.
Total power output will be equivalent
to 353 average auto engines.
A family auto can be driven under the
fuselage with ample clearance.
Although production cannot be started
until wartime restrictions are lifted, a full
scale mock-up of the plane has been com
pleted at Fort Worth.
30 Years Difference
It was just 30 years ago that British air
men carried out their first bombing raid
against German submarine construction.
Five pilots of the Royal Naval Air Service
were selected to raid the dockyards at Ant
werp. Only two pilots reached the objec-
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tive but some damage was done. They fieW
over the yards at a mere 1000 feet, with
bombs weighing-only 20 pounds each. Duf'
ing the present war British bombers hav^
dropped as much as 10,300 tons on enemy
targets in 24 hours.
Airline Planes Total 355
New transport plane allocations by
Surplus Property Board recently haV^
raised the total of the U. S. domestic aif'
line fieet to 355, just four short of the pea|^
of 359 in use during 1941, before a good
number were turned over for military op'
eration.
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