MASS PRODUCTION
GOOD MEN IN GOOD MACHINES. Under a system of mass-production of aircraft there cannot be the constant improvement in performance upon which depends superiority in air combat, writes Mr J. M. Spaight in the "Spectator.” If we are to remain on top—as we are at present —we cannot safely abandon the standards of design and construction which have enabled us to attain that predominance. Morale would suffer if we did. Secondrate machines and first-rate pilots do not mix. The man is as important as the machine, and the man is a complex of imponderables which are as real,, though unseen, as the constituent parts of the machine. Among them is trust in. or distrust of. his machine. If he knows that he has a better machine than his opponent has, that is already half the battle. The two qualities interlock—the quality of the machine and, the quality of the man. It is because both are as good as they can be that, against odds of four, five or even ten to one, our Spitfire and Hurricane pilots have been smashing up the German formations on every ’ occasion when they have come to grips.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1940, Page 6
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195MASS PRODUCTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1940, Page 6
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