AIR FORCE CASUALTIES
WHY THEY ARE SO PREVALENT London, July 15. Further light was thrown on the cause of Air Force casualties by Lord Thomson, an ex-Minister of Air, in a speech at Guildford. He emphasised that civil flying was far safer than walking the streets of London. It is in ipilitary service that flying risks are taken and accidents occur. Young fellows have to be trained to do feats that no commercial-pilot is called upon to perform. The Air Force gets men between the ages of 15 and 16, who are the most high-spirited, reckless young devils who ever stepped. They would break their necks 'pin thp road if they did not in aeroplanes. “The more high-spirited and the more reckless a boy is the greater asset is he to the nation. If we are undertaking air fighting,” said Lord Thomson, the present machines v?e cpifld lb flbout ten hops reach the uttermost part of the Dominions in fibout sixteen days. Think what that would tnean to the people in the backblocks of Australia and New Zealand, and ho,w it would strengthen the ties of kinship,”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3667, 19 July 1927, Page 3
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187AIR FORCE CASUALTIES Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3667, 19 July 1927, Page 3
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