Crossword-Solution: SUPERFORTRESS 13 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

And so the superfortress turned toward the center and rocketed into the high cloud deck with misgivings on the part of Pilot Eastburn and Simpson.

The results of years of study, calculation and discussion seem to be overthrown in one moment as a superfortress plunges into a vital section and the crew sees things that ought not to be there! Most important in the 1947 storm was the fact that conditions at a height just below forty thousand feet were such as to go with a circulation against the hands of a clock at maybe 130 miles an hour.

SUPERFORTRESS The first giant _Flying Fortress_ had hardly taken off from the Boeing factory at Seattle, in 1935, before its engineers began to think about bigger and faster super-bombers.

One of the greatest surprises of the war was the War Department’s announcement on June 15, 1944: “B-29 _Superfortresses_ of the United States Army Air Forces’ 20th Bomber Command bombed Japan.” Just one year after the announcement of the first _Superfortress_ attack on Japan, five hundred of these giant ships took part in a single raid against targets on the Japanese mainland.

Then in August of that year a lone _Superfortress_ dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima for the knockout blow that brought us victory.