AVIATION MINISTER
APPOINTMENT IN PRANCE DEVELOPMENT IN AIRCRAFT. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyright London, September 16. The, "Times" correspondent at Paris says it has been decided to create a Minister of Aviation. This is a logical sequence to the groat development in tho French aviation service since the outbreak of'the war. Tho number of aeroplanes has increased by seven times. New types have appeared. The motors are three times more powerful, and the carrying capacity of tho machines has trebled, the radiuß of action has been doubled, and the speed increased by 30 per. cent. Training sohools have sprung up everywhere, and are preparing pilots, mechanics, observation offiocrs, and shaTpshoot-ors. More pilots are triinod in a month than were trained formerly in a year. Those achievements have made possible the extraordinary activity of the French air service -during the last few months. As to tlie results the laconic communiques daily eloquently testify. Since the Zeppelin Taid on March'2o all attempts by .German airmen to reach Paris have'failed. .
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2570, 18 September 1915, Page 5
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170AVIATION MINISTER Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2570, 18 September 1915, Page 5
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