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Stumbled across this AMAZING article from the May 1939 issue of Mechanix Illustrated... at a time when the Second World War had not even started yet... It is written by a U.S. Army Air Corps major and it strikes me as much for its spot-on analysis of the state of U.S. aviation at the time as for the liberty of tone that he, a senior officer, uses in a public media such as that magazine. I really wonder if a senior officer of today wouldn't simply get court-martialed for stating such things so abruptly and frankly — or simply for just speaking out on a subject like that... I also wonder how influential this pamphlet may have been in prompting the armed services to upgrade their flying services...
I made a collage to condense it into three screen-sized files. The original page scans can be found here:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/15/our-air-force-a-farce/
I made a collage to condense it into three screen-sized files. The original page scans can be found here:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/15/our-air-force-a-farce/
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