RUSSIAN AVIATION
TRAINING ON LARGE SCALE.
[United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph .—Copy right.]
i (Reoeived this day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Jenuary 9. Behind the camouflage of a civil aviation corps, Russia is preparing a great air force. According to ' the “Daily Mail” enormous sums are being spent in all branches of jur work and poison gas. Civil aviation schools are training eighteen thousand pilots this year as part of a three year course, Six thousand gunmen' experts are employed as instructors, air commanders and technicians. J Factories are worjdng day and night in the production of machines and aeroplanes. Sleighs are being built in ■large numbers. If they .are forced to the wings’are to be packed and Tthe runners come into action, and the polit drives over the ice and snow. Pilots are being trained in long distance attacks.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1931, Page 5
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140RUSSIAN AVIATION Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1931, Page 5
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