ROYAL AIR FORCE.
BOMBING MACHINES. IN SERVICE SHORTLY.
LONDON, Jan. 6.
Very soon now, Britain’s short-range bombers will be replaced with new camouflaged machines capable of reaching any European capital in one hop. After two and a-half years of expansion, the Royal Air Force is only 200 machines short of the 1760 set as the strength to be attained by 1939. Many of the aeroplanes in service, however, are of a relatively old type, and nearly all the bombers will be replaced this year, and “skeleton squadrons” will be brought up to full strength. The first of the new 300 miles an hour fighters are expected to be in service within a few weeks, after months of delay due to production difficulties and modifications enforced by the Air Ministry. These fighters will replace the 50 miles an hour slower defending aeroplanes which were opposed to “raiding” bombers in the manoeuvres over outer London last year. . The number of first-line fighting aeroplanes now in, service is:—Home defence, 1542; overseas, 176; Fleet air arm. 217; India, 96. Pilots and ground workers number 65.000. Since April 1, 1935, a total of 4050 pilots joined the service.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 19 January 1938, Page 9
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193ROYAL AIR FORCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 19 January 1938, Page 9
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