Sky Battleship

ARMY & NAVY Sky Battleship

To its list of biggest everythings, last week the U. S. added the B-19, a 70-ton flying battleship, capable of flying to Europe and back at from 200-300 m.p.h. with a 28-ton "useful" load of bombs, fuel, crew, miscellaneous cargo.* "Useful" load is not to be confused with bomb load; how much the bomb load is in the B-19 the Army did not care to say. care to say.

Being built by Douglas in Santa Monica, the B19 will easily dwarf all previous U. S. planes, including the newest 41-ton trans-Pacific Clipper, will be half again as large as the outdated 12-motor, 100-passenger German DO-X. The Douglas B19, wingspread 210 ft., four-motored to develop 6,000 h. p., will have a 6,000-mile range, will sleep a ten-man crew. Although an experiment in military plane-building, the B-19 is expected greatly to influence peacetime passenger transport trends.

*An ordinary U. S. flat car can carry 70 to 100 tons.

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