COMPETITIVE AIRCRAFT BUILDING.
“One of the gravest problems I have to face at the present time is tho expansion of the air forces of other countries,” said Lord Thomson, tho Minister for Air, at a dinner of the Authors’ Club, reports the “Daily Telegraph,” “Even in America, apparently the safest of all countries, the expenditure on aviation, the air services generally, has increased by 124 per cent, in the last few yea.rs. All over the world one finds almost frenzied attempts being made—certainly attempts not justfied by the budgets of the countries concerned—to increase either their air forces, or, perhaps, what is more far-sighted, their air-power by subsidising civil aviation. What the situation will be tan years hence one has groat difficulty in envisaging. Unless a halt is called, it seems to me that competition in other forms of armaments will fall into insignificance in comparison with what is being done in aviation.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1930, Page 8
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153COMPETITIVE AIRCRAFT BUILDING. Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1930, Page 8
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