Built by Higgins Plastics Corp, self-bailing combination motor sail craft is 28 ft long; weight 2800 lb; carried externally under fuselage of Flying Fortress or B-29, boat is dropped with parachutes; released by mechanical bomb salvo, boat is pitched away from plane by catapult device; drop may be made as low as 700 ft; each boat is equipped with sails as well as two 5 1/2-hp engines which give speed of 8 to 10 mph and cruising range of 500 mi.
Motorboat that flies
Motorship
Motorship ; 30 , n 7 ; p 676-677
1945
2 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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