FIGHTING PLANES
PURCHASES FROM UNITED STATES TEN THOUSAND MACHINES IN 18 MONTHS. WANTED BY BRITISH OFFICIALS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) NEW YORK. January 10. The United Press Washington correspondent says British purchasing officials have informed aviation circles that they will need a minimum of ten thousand more American planes during the next eighteen months to assure air supremacy over Germany. The British and Franch combined production is estimated at fifteen hundred planes monthly. Britain expects to reach a peak production of 2,200 planes a month by May. British and French orders to American factories at present are 5,000. The American aircraft industry is capable of producing 1.700 to 1,800 planes a month.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19400111.2.69
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1940, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
116FIGHTING PLANES Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1940, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in