Show Allied Plane Desi Nips Copy Design gel To Make Zeros Top Fighters Fighters- By HAROLD GUARD I UNITED STATES AIRBASE Australia July 16 15 Up The new type Japanese zero pla plane e that allied pilots rate one e. e C the best fighters in In the wor world ld is an In indirect d. d compliment t to 0 tI i engineers for its engine instrument instrument instrument ment panel and radio are American American Ameri Ameri- can can type and its armament is is copied from the from the British It Is a tougher tough r a d less vulnerable vulnerable vulnerable able Zero than tha the former model and It appears to have greater speed During f a flight In a flying fortress with Lieutenant Bryan ONeill O'Neill of ot San Francisco we spotted one of ot the new Zeros at about feet It was wu far to starboard and a little below us Outdistanced Fortress ONeill O'Neill figured he could outrace the J Japanese back to our base He climbed a little and then leveled off ort at about miles mUes an hour The Zero stayed along at about the same sam speed until suddenly the pilot opened up and raced ahead like a bullet The Zero not only had the speed but it had enough so it could cut cutin cutin cutin in toward our line of flight at a degree 45 angle When about 1000 yards ahead of ot the fortress the pilot executed what ONeill O'Neill termed a marvelous turn While going at great speed the Zero went into what at first appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap to be a full tull loop Then it hung vertically for a moment and andIn andin andin in the next it was swooping di directly directly di- di i back at us I 1 caught a fleeting glimpse of ot the plane with its light drag wing fabric vermillion colored discs and the squat glass-domed glass cockpit behind behind behind be be- hind the stub-nosed stub front end Escaped in Cloud I heard cannon chatter as ONeill O'Neill put the fortress into a h heavy bank that hid us effective effectively f c enabled us to get back r further molestation 11 |