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Show Many Of Army's Rest To Be Seen At Air I Show Here Saturday In addition to the P-80 "Shooting "Shoot-ing Star", jet propelled fijjhter and the B-29 "Super Fortress" to be featured in the air show at the Cedar Ce-dar City Airport Saturday, crowds will see the North American P-51 'Mustang", Republic P-47 ' Thun-dcibolt" Thun-dcibolt" and the Doiigles A-2t "In- j vader", according to Colonel Josiph I S Bergin, Commander of the Civil Air Patrol's Utah Wing. It requires a top-night pilot to handle a speedy little fighter like I the P-51 "Mustang," the same type 1 of plane that recently won top hon- j ors In the Bendlx Trophy race. The P-51 Is small, fast and highly man-euverable. man-euverable. It proved to be a nightmare night-mare to the Germans and Japs because be-cause this highly versatile aircraft didn't confine its activities to escorting es-corting heavies. It is especially well adapted to strafing. Competing with the P-80 and P-51 will be the largest fighter of the bunch a Republic P-47 "Thunderbolt". Having a wing span of nearly 41 feet and weighing close to seven tons. It Is flown at speeds In excess of 420 miles per hour. Its superchargers enable operation at altitudes of 40,000 feet. No show Is complete without a Douglas A-26 "Invader" with Us speed, maneuverability and versatility. versat-ility. Primarily an attack b.nnlvr, it Is never the less used for dive-bombing, dive-bombing, low level bombing, skip bombing, and strafing. Its great speed enales it to strike and get out of range before enemy antiaircraft anti-aircraft guns can be trained on it. |