THE SKY’S THE LIMIT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 40, 27 November 1940, Page 4

THE SKY’S THE LIMIT.

Britain is creating an army comparable to the strongest in Europe. At the same time an air component of immense proportions is being swiftly created to co-operate with it, writes Mr • M. Spaight, in his new book. “The Sky’s the Limit.” It may he indeed that- if the issue of the war is decided on land, the decision will depend to a great extent upon tlie amph. tude of the air strength available to the ono commander-in-ehief or the other. We shall not he in a position of inferiority in that final trial of strength. The Empire has committed itself to a stop more far-reaching still. It is creating an aerial mass of raa >- oeuvro, a mass extra to all normal requirements, a mass that can he thrown, in anywhere, a, mass that will be overwhelming, irresistible, an avalanche that renews itself. We are in face of something now, unknown, without precedent. Air power is beginning to find itself. Our conception of its nature, still half uncomprehended, is coloured in evitably by our old, well-grasped conception of sea-power, It must "be so, foi Britain. Britain did not build sen-power by half-measures, nor will she so builu air-power. She tackles big tasks in a big way.