Air Exercises Surprise The Chiefs Of Staffs
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Received yunaay 7 p.m-. LONDdN> Jtily 2, The Air "Chiefs are. satisfifed, as a • tesult of the exercise ' 'Foil' ' which has been testing Britain's dei'ehc& in the past week, that Brithih iS hrhll 011 the way to combating ahy thteaf from enemy high altitude jet bombeiS flying near the speed of sound, and that the-' f oundations have been laid for a greatly ixnprov6d sySteih Of aerial defence. . SeniOr offioerS Were most impressed and surprised, firstly, by the high pfir centage of interceptions at great heights by the latest operational Jet figbters, MeteOr and Vampire; secondly,- by the way ih Which the per'Sonnel stood up to the stringent demand for even more rapidity in spotling and reporting to contr'Ol CSHtres, the presence of enemy aircraft.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 July 1949, Page 5
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