AIRCRAFT AND MEN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 135, 8 May 1940, Page 7

AIRCRAFT AND MEN.

EXPANSION IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 6. With the rapidly expanding Air Force, the British light alloy industry has had to undergo a violent expansion of nearly twenty times in order to meet the factories’ requirements, and, although production lias always been good, , well-informed London circles stated that the Air Minister will not be satisfied until it has reached the highest possible level. it is considered that the appointment ol Brigadier-General H. A. Jones as Controller of Light Alloy will enable this to be accomplished more easily, and to-day’s announcement of his nomination was received with gratification. The Air Ministry’s determination to expand factory output as widely as efiicient organisation can carry it applies also to training personnel for the R.A.F. It is pointed out in authoritative quarters that the hard winter conditions have caused an interruption in the regular liow oi train*ed men. It is stated that the reorganisation into two training commands (announced yesterday) will provide a much faster flow of competent personnel which, in' conjunction with the tremendous training resources of Canada, Australia. New Zealand, Kenya, Rhodesia, and South Africa, will give unsurpassed facilities for the vigorous growth oi a most powerful Air Force. These resources will be added to by the French, who have afforded facilities not only in France but throughout the French Empire.