BRITAINS MILITARY WING.
ARMY AEROPLANES AND THEIR REC6RD, HUNDRED THOUSAND MILES WITHOUT A FATAMTY By SVflegrapb-'SreM AESodfl-ltoflHOeiiiyrteßt (Roc. February 26, 10.25 p.m.) London, February 2G, Colonel J. E. i). gcoly, D.S.O. "(■Seeret»r,v of State for War), states that : S«itt Britain now has 101 aefap-lalics— an incr-oaso of 48 since Juno '80 last, despite, tho fact tlmt 42 Were sdrripissct, with it view to minimising rialcs, • _Bo added that Great Britain was in* sistinft on n higher degree of safety than any other country. • The military wing Invd flown-ofte- hundred sand miles. in night months ivitliput a. fatality, It-was proposed to 'maintain 250 aeroplanes, newssitating 125 lie* ofees aanftttlly, '
The problem, of gctttag sufficient kerb* planes and olivines in Great Britain. Was now solved, ho' said, while Eh© -averago. speed v?a-s the highest ill Sutopo.
THE CONTROL OP AIBSHIPS ANO ' • AfiBOPLANES. Lonflo'h, February '25, Colonel Seety (Secretary of. State for War) annoit-n-bed in. t:li.o House of Cam* mens that the Nnvy was assuming t-ba coiitrol of airships, and the Army the control of aeroplrtes.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1994, 27 February 1914, Page 7
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173BRITAINS MILITARY WING. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1994, 27 February 1914, Page 7
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