EMPIRE AIR PLAN
TREMENDOUS RESOURCES PROGRESS IN FIRST YEAR ißritish OHlciai Wireless) RUGBY, Oct. 5. (Received Oct. 6, at 9 p.m.) Official figures issued supplement day-to-day news of the war drive in every part of the Empire. Particularly striking are the figures summarising the great Empire Air plan. Of the 67 training schools planned in Canada, the main home of the scheme, over 22 are already in operation well ahead of schedule, and there are between 2000 and 3000 pupils in training. There are 16 supplementary schools. Of 88 aerodromes 60 are new and the schools will be staffed by 40,000 men. In three years the cost will be 607,000,000 Canadian dollars, and the output will' be 25,000 pilots and crews yearly. In Australia the intake of recruits to March, 1943, will be 57,000 and there will be 36 training schools when the plan is in full operation. In New Zealand there will be full provision for the training of 900 pilots yearly, and for the initial training of 2000 pilots and crews.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24422, 7 October 1940, Page 8
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173EMPIRE AIR PLAN Otago Daily Times, Issue 24422, 7 October 1940, Page 8
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