Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1943 — Page 9

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It is one of the great air stories of the war — the flight home of ten men in a 4-engine Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress that didn’t know it had been shot down. _Technically too badly shattered to stay aloft at all, that plane’stwo remaining Wright Cyclone engines had actually

lifted it over 2 mountain pass,'and its crew had topped off the epic of their flight by downing a total of six

Nazi fighters. This is but one of many first-hand accounts, telling in tezzos of human lives the story of the Wright Cyclone engine.

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rag ete “We Just sat there for a while and looked at otbing,

“Because any pilot will tell you the thing’s impossible. Our weary,

wounded Fortress bad flown for the incredible time of four hours and

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Into this engine have been packed the stamina and power needed to meet demands far beyond those of normal operation. Into it, too, have gone many years of air: craft engine research, tested in the proving ground of commercial SSpetian by more than a billion miles of airline service, Today one of the most relisble aircraft engines in the world, the Wright Cyclone is revealing its extraordinary endurance and power in the toughest test of all—the grind of wae,

a balf on a single pair of engines=400 miles with ber two starboard engines shot out by enemy fire—and now we weié safely back. "We just sat there looking at nothing. And in that moment we each . felt something close to buman love for this faithful, battered machine that bad the power to bring us home with balf ber engin gone.”

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On 42 different types of American. planes—on heavy, medium, attack and torpedo bombers, on fighter planes and transports — Wright Cyclone engines arc h:lping our fliers to crush the resistance of Germany, Italy and Jopan. And behind them are tens of thousands of mén and

~ women-at Wright Aeronautical producing these engines. “The importance of their job to the winning “of this war

is their inspiration . .. as is the promise of the great new age of air transportation that is being born of war... LOOK TO THE SKY, AMERICA!

FOUR OF THE MANY OUTSTANDING ARMY AND NAVY AIRCRAFT POWERED BY WRIGHT CYCLONE ENGINES.

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