NAZI AIR SECRETS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 72, 1 July 1942, Page 5

NAZI AIR SECRETS

REVEALED BY BRITISH AERO ENGINEERS . •Secret information about Germanaircraft engineering was secured by the British Government when a South Wales engine overhaul fac~ i-ory rebuilt a complete German aero ongine from a quantity of spares'* and salvaged parts. Five complete engines were even-* tually assembled, all of them pass- . <ng tests, and Mr G. Hummerstonc, (he superintendent, received a let- , tor from the British Ministry of Aircraft Production thanking him for «.vhat they described as "a remark-* \tj able achievement." j This factory is one of twelve runt ■ 1 bv the British Overseas Airways Cor- - ] Deration, whose wartime work has. , earned for it the nickname "Mer-„ ■ J pliant Air Service.'" Over 40,000 / miles of British air routes from Sweden to South Africa and the -,-j rinited States to India, these unarm- % merchant ships of the air main-* ! 'a in vital communications of Empi re through all the theatres of war. Last year they flew 5,500,000 miles; in .1942 the figure will be *•' round about 8,000,000 miles. Regardless of Aveather and risks of enemy interference these ,'planes >■ carry vital messages* important per-*.-' sonnel, films and written propagan- j da. The urgency of the work is giv-*J ing the Corporation much valuably.j data for use after the war engines will do more for the sam<&,s weight, and radio and other will open up an era of safety commercial flying which woulrtj have seemed impossible! ill P time.