CLOUD OF PLANES
NEARLY TWO THOUSAND AMERICA’S PROGRAMME By Cable..—Press Association. — copyright. Reed. 10.15 a.m. WASHINGTON, Thur. Rear-Admiral Moffett, chief of the Navy Aeronautic Bureau, told the Naval Committee of the House of Representatives that 759 new airplanes will be needed to man the five new aircraft cruisers and the 26 new cruisers provided for in the building programme, these being additional to the 1,000 planes already provided for in the five-year aviation programme now being carried out. The admiral stated that each carrier needs 75 planes for active service, and about half that number in reserve, while each cruiser needs six. He asserted that each plane would carry a bomb capable of demolishing a cruiser.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 263, 27 January 1928, Page 1
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118CLOUD OF PLANES Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 263, 27 January 1928, Page 1
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