In 1941, when it appeared that Britain's battle against Germany might fail, the U.S. Army Air Forces called for a bomber that could fly 10,000 miles with a 10,000-pound payload. Northrop responded with the XB-3 5 Flying Wing; Consolidated offered the XB-3 6 Peacemaker.rnIn 1947, my boss, Colonel Albert "Bullet" Boyd, chief of the Army Air Forces Flight Test Division at Wright Field in Ohio, sent Glenn Edwards, Danny Forbes, and me-"los tres amigos"-to the barren California wasteland known as Muroc Army Air Field, along with civilian flight test engineer Richard Smith. We shared Danny as copilot. We had all the fun of flying, and Dick Smith had all the work of reducing our collected data into readable form.
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机译：1941年，当英国对德国的战斗可能会失败时，美国陆军空军要求使用一架轰炸机，该轰炸机可以以10,000磅的有效载荷飞行10,000英里。诺斯罗普以XB-3 5飞行联队作为回应；联合提供XB-3 6和平制造者。1947年，我的老板，俄亥俄赖特菲尔德陆军空军飞行测试部负责人阿尔伯特·“布雷特”·博伊德上校派遣格伦·爱德华兹，丹尼·福布斯和我-“ los tres amigos”-与平民飞行测试工程师Richard Smith一起被称为加利福尼亚的贫瘠荒原，称为Muroc陆军航空场。我们与Danny共同担任副驾驶。我们享受了飞行的乐趣，而迪克·史密斯（Dick Smith）所做的一切工作都是将收集到的数据简化为可读的形式。
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