REFUELLING PLANES IN AIR: U.S. DEVISES NEW METHOD
WASHINGTON, April 5. Superfortress bombers aiming at distant targets can refuel in the air within a few minutes by a new method developed by the United States Air Force. This technique was hinted at before the Senate Armed Services Committee recently by the Air Secretary (Mr W. Stuart Symington), who said that Superfortresses using most modern developments could bomb any part of Russia from bases.in Alaska or Labrador.
Although he declined to disclose the exact speed with which petrol can be transferred from tanker aeroplane to bomber by the American method, one expert said that British airmen had developed a method of pumping fuel from one aeroplane to another at about 100 gallons a minute. The American equipment was designed to pump several times faster.
This is held to indicate that Superfortresses could take on virtually a full load of petrol in perhaps 15 minutes. A Superfortress fuelled by the present standard can fly 4600 miles.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 April 1948, Page 7
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