EMPIRE AIR DRIVE
THE CANADIAN SCHEME
WELL AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
LATEST FIGURES
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, October 5,
Official figures which have been issued supplement the day-to-day news of the war drive in every part of the Empire. Particularly strikingare the figures summarising the great Empire air plan. Of the 67 training schools planned in Canada, the main home of the scheme, more than 22 are already in operation and well ahead of their schedule, and there are between 2000 and 3000 pupils for crews in training. There are also 16 supplementary schools.
Of the 88 Canadian aerodromes 60 are new. The schools are to be staffed by 40,000 men. In three years the cost will be 607.000,000 Canadian dollars and the output will be 25,000 pilots and crews yearly.
In Australia the intake of recruits to March, 1943, will be 57,000, and there will be 36 training schools when the plan is in full operation.
In New Zealand there will be full training of 900 pilots yearly and initial training of 2000 pilots and crews.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 85, 7 October 1940, Page 7
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176EMPIRE AIR DRIVE Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 85, 7 October 1940, Page 7
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