FUTURE OF AIR CRAFT
WILL DISPLACE THE NAVY
By, .Telegraph—Press' Association—Copyright '■ ■"'■ tendon,-'-April 16. Mr. Pemberton Billing, the aviator' ■M.P.yina lecture, prophesied that within a few years the Royal Nary will take the second plaoe to the-British air fleet. He anticipated that the war would be decided in the air within 20 months. The development of aeronautics was-the forerunner, of -universal peace. Britain; or another nation would'possesa within' ten'or twenty. YeaTs a hundred thousand airships, divided into a hundred sguadrons, capable of devastating tile principal cities.of an enemy in a single night.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2749, 18 April 1916, Page 5
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91FUTURE OF AIR CRAFT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2749, 18 April 1916, Page 5
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