AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 33, 3 November 1942, Page 5

AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION

Americans Impressed (Britts!) imtri.-i: Wireless I RUGBY, November 1. Mr. T. P, Wright, Director of Air Production of the War Production Board of America, and leader of the United States experts visiting British factories, in a broadcast said that the exchange of trips had been important for the practical knowledge gained. The Americans, he said, had been most favourably impressed with what they had seen.

They had been amazed at the excellent output (>f aircraft . Britain’had attained under adverse conditions, and they admired the spirit of the British working people carrying on their jobs in an intensive, determined manner that was sp evident. The Americans had inspected the many types of aircraft Britain was producing and were struck by the fine quality of tho workmanship and the excellent design, Such models as the Spitfire, Typhoon, Mosquito aud Lancaster were perhaps outstanding, Air. Wright also mentioned they had seen some of next year’s models still on the secret list, and their performance would be far ahead of tho present types, as would indeed United States models in the same stage of development. In New York, Mr. Glenn Martin announced that the huge Mars aerial battleship is being converted to a cargo transport for the navy. He explained that 20 craft of the size of the Mars could deliver as much cargo from California to Hawaii every two months as a 10,000-ton Liberty ship, and added that 3-13 Mars planes could carry the same cargo as a convoy of 25 ships.