STRENGTH OF AIRCRAFT.
EFFECT OF REARMAMENT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 22. The first-line strength of the aircraft of the Royal Air Force and the Fleet air arm, including squadrons overseas, is now 2032, which is rather more than double the strength before the rearmament programme was undertaken. The first-line strength at Home of the metropolitan air force (home defence squadrons and coastal command) is 1542, or nearly three times the preexpansion figure.
First-line bombers stationed at home are 840 an increase of more than 150 per cent, on 1935General ■ reconnaissance aircraft, composed of seven land ’plane squadrons and certain flying-boat units, now make up a first-line fleet of 162 aircraft.
These figures, which do not repeal the strength of the reserve behind the first-line, indicate how much more formidable in the air Britain now is than three years ago, and they do not reveal the actual increase in striking power, as a large proportion of service squadrons are armed 'with ’planes which are faster, cany heavier loads, fly further, and are more efficient than the aircraft they displaced.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 24 January 1938, Page 7
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