AMERICA’S DEFENCE.
AIRCRAFT CRUISERS. TOTAL OF 759 ’PLANES NEEDED. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 26. Rear-Admiral Moffett, Chief of theNavy Aeronautic Bureau) told the House of Representatives Naval Committee that 759 new aeroplanes will be needed to man the five new aircraft' cruisers. Twenty-six new. cruisers were provided for in the building programme, these being additional to 1000' ’planes provided for in the five-year-aviation programme now being carried', out. ,
Admiral Moffett stated that each farrier needed 75 ’planes for active service and about half that in the reserve, while each cruiser needed six. He asserted that each ’plane would carry a bomb capable of demolishing a cruiser.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 91, 27 January 1928, Page 4
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