AIR FORCE EXPANSION
More Planes Wanted
BUGBY, &ay 5. The formation of five new squadrons, announced ia the latest Air Ministry orders, will within the next few days increase the Btrength of the Metropolitain Air Porce, Home Defence, Coastal! Command and Army Co-operation Units; to 113 squadrons, or only ten below the; number seheduled for completion under: the Boyal Air Porce expansion prb- ! gramme. Once the 123 squadrons are in being i the individual squadron aircraft arma-] ment will be increased to augment the! aggregate first-line strength of thei Metropolitan force to 1750 aeroplanes. ' The ^ present first-line strength is: approximately 1400. Pour of the five new units will be armed with bombing. aeroplanes, three with medium bombers and one with "heaviee." The fifth is the seventh of the general reconnaisance squadrons units created during the past two years.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 94, 7 May 1937, Page 9
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138AIR FORCE EXPANSION Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 94, 7 May 1937, Page 9
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