Show Reveal Details of Navys Navy's New Super Patrol Plane BURBANK CALIF A A new super patrol plane which its designers say has the greatest range fastest speed and heaviest armament of any scouting bomber yet developed was announced by the Ule navy Known as the the land-based land monoplane can attain attaIn- on two duplex engines with a combined combined com com- horsepower all the range and load performance claimed by the giant four-engine four and say designing engineers at Lockheed Aircraft corporation For instance the craft reputedly can fly its seven-man seven crew stop non-stop for lor more than O miles miles from from Seattle Wash to Tokyo at Tokyo at miles an hour Or if it based at Guam it it could scout Wake Island Tokyo Manila and New Britain Capable of transporting enough explosives to sink a heavy cruiser the ton 29 craft Is fitted for two 2000 pound aerial torpedoes four inch aerial rockets pounds of ot regular bombs or a dozen pound depth charges Engineers say the plane has been I tested extensively and that production production production pro pro- will be delivered to the navy soon I |